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Distributive Justice and Social Conflict in an Ak Model

Tsoukis, Christopher - 2019

We introduce distributive justice into a simple model of growth and distribution. Two groups (‘classes’) of otherwise … and Nash bargaining, encapsulating electoral politics and socio-political bargaining) and two normative (justice) criteria … of ‘justice as minimal social friction’. Under the plausible assumption that the capitalists’ overall socio …

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Leroux, M.‐L; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021

This paper studies the properties of the optimal taxes on bequests when individuals differ in wage and in their risks of mortality and old-age dependance. Survival is positively correlated to income but dependency is negatively correlated with it. The government cannot distinguish between...

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Incorporating Inequality Aversion in Health-Care Priority Setting

Costa-Font, Joan - 2019

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an overview of the literature on the measurement of...

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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...

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Complexity and Distributive Fairness Interact in Affecting Compliance Behavior

Bellemare, Charles - 2019

Filing income tax returns or insurance claims often requires that individuals comply with complex rules to meet their obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are intrinsically linked to distributive fairness. We...

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Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Aging

Grossmann, Volker; Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger - 2021

We discuss public pension systems in a multi-period overlapping generations model with gerontologically founded human aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement...

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Intragenerational Inequality Aversion and Intergenerational Equity

Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2021

We study the interplay between intragenerational and intergenerational equity in an economy with two countries producing and consuming from national capital stocks. We characterize the sustainable development path that a social planner would implement to achieve intertemporal egalitarianism. If...

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Intergenerational Actuarial Fairness When Longevity Increases : Amending the Retirement Age

Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, Robert; … - 2021

Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify national public pension schemes by increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for people to retire prematurely. To this end,...

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Meta-Analysis of Inequality Aversion Estimates

Nunnari, Salvatore; Pozzi, Massimiliano - 2022

We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26...

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Optimal and Fair Prizing in Sequential Round-Robin Tournaments : Experimental Evidence

Lauber, Arne; March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2022

We report results from the ﬁrst experimental study of round-robin tournaments. In our experiment, we investigate how the prize structure aﬀects the intensity, fair-ness, and dynamic behavior in sequential round-robin tournaments with three players. We compare tournaments with a second prize...

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