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Optimal Justice in a General Equilibrium Model with Non Observable Individual Productivities
Lasserre, Pierre; Soubeyran, Antoine - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999
In this general equilibrium model, justice and police institutions are treated as a mechanism that induces individuals … the system, and when both detection levels and justice accurary are costly instruments. Nous étudions dans un modèle d … pas observables et que tant le niveau de détection que la précision des décisions de justice sont des caractéristiques …
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Quality, Quantity and Duration of Lives
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Housseini, Bouba - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2015
The evaluation of development processes and of public policies often involves comparisons of social states that differ in income distributions, population sizes and life longevity. This may require social evaluation principles to be sensitive to the quality, the quantity and the duration of...
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Reforming Old Age Security: Effects and Alternatives
Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Fortin, Bernard - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2015
The federal government announced in its 2012 budget its intention to delay the age of eligibility for Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement from 65 to 67 years. By the time the policy is fully implemented (i.e., in 2030), this delay will have increased net revenues of the federal...
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Mandatory minimum contributions, heterogeneous endowments and voluntary public-good provision
Keser, Claudia; Markstädter, Andreas; Schmidt, Martin - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2014
In a public-good experiment with heterogeneous endowments, we investigate if and how the contribution level as well as the previously observed fair-share rule of equal contributions relative to one's endowment (Hofmeyr et al., 2007; Keser et al., 2014) may be influenced by minimum-contribution...
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The Impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality: a case study in China
Zhu, Nong; Luo, Xubei - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2014
Large numbers of agricultural labor moved from the countryside to cities after the economic reforms in China. Migration and remittances play an important role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper examines the impact of rural-to-urban migration on rural poverty and...
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Les choix technologiques et l'impôt négatif
Amine, Samir; Santos, Pedro Lages Dos - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011
In this article, we stress the effect of a Negative Income Tax (NIT) scheme on the firms' behaviour as regards their technological choices. Within the framework of a matching model with differentiation of the agents, we show that a NIT reduces inequalities and rises employment making agents less...
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L'Allocation universelle est-elle réellement en mesure de modifier l'équilibre du marché du travail?
Amine, Samir; Santos, Pedro Lages Dos - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011
Many economists (Atkinson, 1995, Ferry 1995) have presented the mechanism of l'Allocation universelle as the new way forward by the modern social protection. In this article, we propose first to recall the context in which takes up the debate on l'Allocation universelle. Using a matching model...
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their relative position in...
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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments
Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011
Experimental studies of social dilemmas have shown that while the existence of a sanctioning institution improves cooperation within groups, it also has a detrimental impact on group earnings in the short-run. Could the introduction of pre-play threats to punish have enough of a beneficial...
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Sharing the Cost of Global Warming
Villemeur, Etienne Billette de; Leroux, Justin - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010
Due to meteorological factors, the distribution of the environmental damage due to climate change bears no relationship to that of global emissions. We argue in favor of offsetting this discrepancy, and propose a global insurance scheme to be financed according to countries' responsibility for...
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