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Consequences of rising income inequality: a comment

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Rising income inequality is an anglo Saxon problem. For most of the other OECD countries, earnings dispersion is rather persistent. Vertical mobility is to be taken into account. The paper also looks at the relationship of income inequality, growth and employment. It elaborates the point that...

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The complexity of economic policy: restricted local optima in tax policy design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e., the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

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Guilt aversion and redistributive politics: A moral intuitionist approach

Le Garrec, Gilles - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

show that people do care about fairness in their demand for redistribution. In this article, in the spirit of the new … behavior over redistribution as the interaction between (a) an automatic cognitive process which quickly generates intuitions … on the fair level of redistribution, (b) a rational self-oriented reasoning which controls the feeling of guilt …

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Indirect taxation, public pricing and price cap regulation: A synthesis

Valentini, Edilio - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper provides a unified vision of a number of results that appeared in three separate streams of literature. The author emphasizes the strong parallelism between the results obtained in a number of papers that analyzed the relationships between price cap regulation, welfare maximization,...

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Science and ideology in economic, political and social thought

Hillinger, Claude - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...

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Airport regulation: tackling congestion and environmental problems

Wolf, Hartmut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

This paper deals with alternative policy options for tackling congestion and environmental problems in the German airport sector. The starting point of the discussion is the planned privatisation of several airports in Germany, which is normally justified on productive efficiency grounds....

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The Impact of the 2008 Hadramout Flash Flood in Yemen on Economic Performance and Nutrition: A Simulation Analysis

Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Thiele, Rainer; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Combining a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (DCGE) model of the Yemeni economy with a microsimulation model that captures the link between changes in household incomes and changes in nutrition status, this paper provides a quantitative assessment of the agricultural, economy-wide, and...

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Towards a Dual Education System, A Labour Market Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Bolivia

Lay, Jann; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

This paper addresses poverty reduction strategies from a labour market perspective. Structural features and constraints are emphasised using informality as a descriptive and segmentation as an analytical concept. Divergent demand-side developments combined with limited labour market mobility...

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The Social Impact of Structural Adjustment in Bolivia

Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the period 1985Â–99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per...

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The Failure of the German Labor Market

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage policy and proposes a new approach to measure productivity growth when unemployment increases. It studies the position of trade unions and the institutional set-up of the labor market. It looks at the...

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