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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269528
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Trade Openness and Income Inequality: New Empirical Evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657909
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Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017
, whereas the conventional 100 % tax view holds under the standard utilitarian social welfare criterion, it does not hold under … the ex post egalitarian criterion, which assigns a strong weight to the welfare of unlucky short-lived individuals. From …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794141
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Globalization and Income Inequality Revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794198
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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826060
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Trade Openness and Income Inequality : New Empirical Evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218286
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Fair Long-Term Care Insurance
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2019
The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866386
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Optimal Lockdown and Social Welfare
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2021
postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social … further reduces average utility, but leads to a larger aggregate welfare. The optimal lockdown under utilitarianism is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314954
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Welfare Effects of Immigration in a Dual Labor Market
Fuest, Clemens; Thum, Marcel - 1999
The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … demand in the competitive sectors is smaller than in the unionised sectors. In the opposite case, the welfare effect of … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314983
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Fair long-term care insurance
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2019
The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052766