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thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and wellbeing. The most likely ethical basis for HE appears to … also explores some of the dimensions of equality and well-being along which the HE principle can be applied and presents a …
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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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stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority students’ demand for, as well as … exit test (which is also a university entry test) in Ukrainian, the state language, thus denying them previously granted … the language policy. …
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This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …
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One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines...
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We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
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evidence, the empirical analysis also shows that financial self-interest, social norms about distributive justice and …
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Ökonomische Effizienz und soziale Gerechtigkeit stehen nicht im Widerspruch zueinander. Workfare ist sozial gerecht …
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Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
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We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
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