This paper focusses on the insurance role of religion in buffering the well-being impact of stressful life events, and … less psychological harm from unemployment than do the non-religious; equally both Catholics and Protestants are less hurt … religious unemployed are less likely to be actively looking for work). In panel data, as implied by insurance, the religious …

matching and intrafirm bargaining model in which large firms hire workers on a frictional labour market and decide to destroy … low productivity job-worker matches. The coexistence of entry and exit flows of workers in a large firm gives rise to a …

acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short …-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the compatibility of those two concerns: prevention against early death and compensation for … a concern for compensation. The reason is that if it is socially desirable to raise the number of survivors through …

An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite the above difficulties, a compensation can be carried …

-based compensation, a large amount of free-riding occurs within the team. In contrast, when the team is homogeneous, agents are better …

This paper examines a situation where a decision-maker determines the appropriate compensation that should be … implemented for a given ecological damage. The compensation can be either or both in monetary and environmental units to meet … three goals : i) no aggregate welfare loss, ii) minimization of the cost associated with the compensation, iii) minimal …

. We consider two social objectives: (1) the maximin on expected lifetime welfare (ex ante), allowing for a compensation … for unequal life expectancies; (2) the maximin on realized lifetime welfare (ex post), allowing for a compensation for …

-lived agents, against any intuition of compensation. This paper proposes a remedy to that undesirable property of utilitarianism … exhibits a compensation of short-lived agents, under the form of a higher consumption. Then, in a general framework where …

dépenses ou manques à gagner. Les surcoûts identifiés et les modes de compensation prévus soulèvent des questions relatives à l …'organisation, de l'évaluation et des conséquences économiques et environnementales de la mise en place d'un système de compensation des … mécanisme de compensation et son origine, nous mesurerons son importance économique et mettrons en évidence ses effets …