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Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption....
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We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income … distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from … communities. Ideologies of community solidarity may well trump those of class solidarity because of the implicit sharing of …
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We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our …
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, labor force participation of male workers of different skills has fallen while their working hours have increased. …
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We analyze the determinants of participation (whether to study) and schooling (where and what to study) in a public … role for travel costs: they hardly affect the participation decisions, but have a strong impact on the schooling decisions …. In addition, high school background plays an important role in both the participation and schooling decisions. To …
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educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. …
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inequality leads to more or less group participation. Using survey data from rural Tanzania we find that inequality at the … 'subjectively' defined. However, when we disaggregate groups by type of access rule, we find that inequality decreases participation … in open access groups when there are wide disparities at the bottom of the distribution, while it increases participation …
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in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard problems related to unobservable effort, like in … exacerbate lower female participation in the labour market. Hence, both effects lead to a gendered equilibrium with large gaps …
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studies. We relate the results to the relevant level of female labour force participation. …
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female disempowerment are rooted in colonial times. We find that the arrival of Europeans in Uganda ignited a century … colonial period. But gender inequality gradually declined during the latter half of the colonial era, and after Uganda …
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