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, eliminating poverty is also a valid normative property of any redistribution mechanism. We suggest combining ELIE with another …
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This paper combines ISSP survey data and experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game to determine the effect of status or relative income on work effort. We find a strong effect of others' incomes on individual effort decisions in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...
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the theoretician of « the mirage of social justice », the second one is a philosopher, who is the author of « Theory of …
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income before and after redistribution and corresponding marginal tax rates. Under a set of simplifying assumptions, it is … applied to the French redistribution system with the interesting implication that the French redistribution authority may …
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income before and after redistribution and corresponding marginal tax rates. Under a set of simplifying assumptions, it is … applied to the French redistribution system with the interesting implication that the French redistribution authority either …
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There are two main approaches for defining social welfare relations for an economy with infinite horizon. The first one is to consider the set of intertemporal utility streams generated by a general set of bounded consumptions and define a preference relation between them. This relation is...
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the more recent domains of happiness economics, the comparative approach by Amartya Sen, and the theory of fair allocation …
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There is no consensus yet on the correct way to write the social utility function in presence of paternalistic altruism. This note shows that the speci cation of the central planner objective is crucial for optimal capital intensity and optimal growth in a one and a two-sector models. In a...
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. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i …) individuals living in states with mineral resources are more individualistic and support less redistribution by the government … ; (ii) the higher the number of mines in a states, the lower the support for governmental redistribution and the higher the …
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In this paper, we highlight the link between the political demand and social policy outcome while taking into account the design of the party system. The political demand is measured by indivudual preferences and the design of the party system is defined as the extent of party fractionalization....
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