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white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement policies could be designed to provide a fair and aggregate welfare … expectancy gap across occupations is sufficiently large, fair pensions raise aggregate welfare and should feature early …
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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...
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, 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 …
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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
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...
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slightly decrease over time. There is a negligible loss in welfare, however, from immediately setting the R&D subsidy to its …
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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 …
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heterogeneous welfare effects of labor market integration. Whereas individuals without residential property lose from immigration …
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for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to … investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the determinants of welfare. Households have non-homothetic preferences … by 0.7 percentage points (measured by the top 10 percent share). Average welfare increases by 0.5 percent. The household …
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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