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How can pure social discounting be ethically justified?

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the appropriate discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned...

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …

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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest in the middle section of the distribution. Better qualified persons, younger persons and … individuals moving downwards in the wage distribution. …

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Economic Effects of VAT Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...

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Intertemporal evaluation criteria for climate change policy: the basic ethical issues

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the 'appropriate' discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018228