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In the mood for redistribution. An empirical analysis of individual preferences for redistribution in Italy
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
impact individual attitudes towards equality and redistribution, and demonstrate that self-interest evaluations, together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151609
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Selfish in the End?:An Investigation of Consistency and Stability of individual Behavior
Brosig, Jeannette; Riechmann, Thomas; Weimann, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper puts three of the most prominent specifications of ‘other-regarding’ preferences to the experimental test, namely the theories developed by Charness and Rabin, by Fehr and Schmidt, and by Andreoni and Miller. In a series of experiments based on various dictator and prisoner’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789547
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Why do education vouchers fail at the ballot box?
Bearse, Peter; Cardak, Buly; A; Glomm, Gerhard; Ravikumar, B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We compare a uniform voucher regime against the status quo mix of public and private education, focusing on the distribtuion of welfare gains and losses across households by income. We argue that the topping-up option available under uniform vouchers is not su¢ ciently valuable for the poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325639
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Financing basic education in Bangladesh
Al-Samarrai, Samer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper presents education finance trends for Bangladesh since 2000. It shows that while government spending on education as a proportion of national income has stagnated, it has increased in real terms. Real increases in education spending have resulted in substantial increases in per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621339
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The Relationship Between State Income Taxes and Local Property Taxes: Education Finance in New Jersey
Goodspeed, Timothy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Abstract - New Jersey enacted an income tax in 1976 in response to a State Supreme Court ruling that held that local taxation alone violated the requirement of the State Constitution that all children receive a “thorough and efficient” education. The law required that revenues from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869284
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Romanian educational system - component of the national economy
Mihaescu, Diana; Dima, Ioan Constantin; Mihaescu, Liviu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
National economy as a stand-alone entity, is a set of resources (natural, material, human, etc..), production activities, trade, service etc. that have established branches, sectors, etc. at a country’s level, between which are established reciprocal links which is based on the material and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837220
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Some aspects regarding efficiency and meaning of indicators used in Romanian Educational System
Mihaescu, Liviu; Mihaescu, Diana; Andrei, Olivia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The analysis of the competitive capacity of the organizations is trying to answer to questions like: how are the resources used for and which is the level of this consumption. So we are following the capacity of using these resources into the better way. It follows therefore that the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111659
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Trabalho, formação e inovação: Novos problemas para a Sociedade da Informação
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
In this paper for a public debate promoted by the Portuguese President of Republic in 2000, we start from the basic definitions of information society and discuss the main measures proposed as targets in the firld of work and employment. Structural changes are analysed related with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617047
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The Universitary Educational System, Cibernetic System
Dima, Ioan Constantin; Mihaescu, Diana; Mihaescu, Liviu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The national system of higher education shall solve one of the most difficult and most important social and human issues – the education and training of the young generation, of the labour hand. The system of higher education appears as a subsystem of the national educational system and of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258139
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Discrete-Choice-Experimente zur Ermittlung der Präferenzen für Umverteilung
Pfarr, Christian; Ulrich, Volker - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
distribution of incomes. Whereas the supply of redistribution is relatively easy to determine, it is rather difficult to identify … the determinants of the citizens’ demand for redistribution. Most of the lit-erature concerning the individuals …’ preferences for redistribution relies on survey based analysis. A shortcoming of these studies is the failure of imposing a budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147681