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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …

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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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The impact of air pollution on attributable risks and economic costs of hospitalization for mental disorders

Wu, Ziting; Chen, Xi; Li, Guoxing; Lin, Tian; Wang, Zhan; … - 2020

This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders (MDs). We identify the relationship between PM2.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in...

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Why praise inequality? : public good provision, income distribution and social welfare

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

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Inequality reduction and cooperation : injection of additional resources

Ramalingam, Abhijit; Stoddard, Brock V. - In: Economics letters 237 (2024), pp. 1-3

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How opportunity costs decrease the probability of war in an incomplete information game

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor); Xiang, Jun (contributor) - 2008

This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite...

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Contractual employment protection and the scarring risk of unemployment

Jahn, Elke J. (contributor); Wagner, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

Risk-averse job seekers fearing the scarring effect of unemployment meet vacancies offering contractual employment protection (CEP) in form of guaranteed employment (GEC) or severance pay contracts (SPC). A GEC fully eliminates both the income risk and the scarring risk of unemployment. SPC...

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Deferred compensation and gift exchange : an experimental investigation into multi-period labor markets

Huck, Steffen (contributor); Seltzer, Andrew (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2005

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...

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Mutual monitoring in teams : theory and experimental evidence on the importance of reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2006

Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk theorem with repeated interactions which requires reasonably accurate public information...

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