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Evaluating Real World Income Distributions behind the Veil of Ignorance - How Risk Averse do you have to be to Prefer Europe over the US?
Weichenrieder, Alfons; Zafar, Tasneem - CESifo - 2011
The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368502
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671734
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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015
the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124890
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - CESifo - 2010
Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727303
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Trading Off Generations: Infinitely Lived Agent Versus OLG
Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - CESifo - 2012
The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs in climate change predominantly in terms of the Ramsey equation relying on the infinitely lived agent model. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate our results to the infinitely lived agent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649700
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Energy Taxes and Natural Gas Demand in EU-Countries
Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - CESifo - 2001
. Traditional tax incidence theory presumes spot markets. Natural gas in the EU-area, however, is to a large extent regulated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196327
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Measuring Health Inequality with Categorical Data: Some Regional Patterns
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013
Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701089
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The Trade-off between Intra- and Intergenerational Equity in Climate Policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - CESifo - 2013
This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877658
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Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - CESifo - 2010
It is argued that the concept of well –being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533999
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Leaky Bucket in the Real World: Estimating Inequality Aversion Using Survey Data
Pirttilä, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - CESifo - 2007
Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....
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