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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration
Doepke, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668527
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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The “prospect of upward mobility” (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions under which some individuals that are poorer than the average optimally choose to oppose redistribution policies. The underlying intuition is that these individuals rationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822040
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On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study
Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Ramos, Xavier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate wheather paople's perceptions of income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out using a questionnaire-experimental approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822085
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Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations
Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability of three classical solution concepts in a bankruptcy problem. We examine both people's impartial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822103
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Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki; Valdez, Zulema - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822113
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Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or negative utility from the leisure of the other (non-social) individual. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822152
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Skill Uncertainty and Social Inference
Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Research in psychology indicates that individuals often make inferences regarding unknown individual qualities based on potentially irrelevant (but socially observable) information. This paper explores occupational choices when individuals receive imprecise signals regarding ability and use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822211
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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822299
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822315
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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822346