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Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...

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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives – to achieve equal gains for members. …

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Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Pogge, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to …

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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key ingredients are: (1) three kinds of terms; and (2) two kinds of relations. Combining the three terms - absolute amount, relative amount, and relative rank - with the two kinds of...

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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and …

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Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vitorocco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the...

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