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The quality effect of intrafirm bargaining with endogenous worker flows

Maury, Tristan-Pierre; Tripier, Fabien - HAL - 2011

This paper proposes a new explanation of the job quality issue in search and matching models, which is not based on market externalities but on strategic interactions within firms through the intrafirm bargaining process. We develop a matching and intrafirm bargaining model in which large firms...

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Des figures et des chiffres : Analyse de Pour une révolution fiscale, de Landais, Piketty et Saez (2011)

Guiard, Yves - HAL - 2012

On the website of their recent book Pour une Revolution Fiscale, Landais, Piketty and Saez (2011) have provided the public with free access to all their quantitative data, inviting the readership to critically appraise and publicly discuss their work. Unfortunately, the book's graphical...

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Utilitarianism or Welfarism: Does it Make a Difference?

Gravel, Nicolas; Moyes, Patrick - HAL - 2011

We show that it is possible to reconcile the utilitarian and welfarist principles under the requirement of unanimity provided that the set of profiles over which the consensus is attained is rich enough. More precisely, we identify a closedness condition which, if satisfied by a class of...

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When unstable, growth is less pro poor

Guillaumont, Patrick; Korachais, Catherine - HAL - 2011

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and by this way is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the...

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Discounting, Risk and Inequality: A General Approach

Fleurbaey, Marc; Zuber, Stéphane - HAL - 2014

inequality. We also study the limit value of the discount rate for very long term investments, and the type of information that …

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"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria

Margolis, David; Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub; … - HAL - 2013

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...

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Education inequalities and the Kuznets curves: a global perspective since 1870

Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2007

level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is … completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn to inequality in human capital and focus on a Mincerian production … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …

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Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Accumulation of Capital: The Role of Heterogeneous Labor Productivity

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - HAL - 2012

We examine the determinants of income inequality and mobility in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply. Individuals …

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Social fragmentation and public goods : polarization, inequality and patronage in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2010

A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. It has been established theoretically that social fragmentation engenders discord and thereby undermines public goods provision. Empirical research has produced mixed results about this...

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Atmospheric Pollution, Environmental Justice and Mortality Rate : a Spatial Approach

Lavaine, Emmanuelle - HAL - 2010

This paper presents the first study of environmental inequality related to health in France at the national scale …

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