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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015
We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...
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Fair Intergenerational Utilitarianism: Risk, its Resolution over Time, and Discounting
Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni - CESifo - 2014
The paper reexamines the welfare economics of intergenerational risk. Risk and its resolution over time are modeled as a decision tree: in each period, the consumption of the current one-period living generation is to be traded-off against uncertain benefits of future generations; as time...
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Globalization and Social Justice in OECD Countries
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015
Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy...
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Generous Sustainability
Gerlagh, Reyer - CESifo - 2014
I define “generous sustainability” as a combination of two conditions: neither instantaneous maximin income nor attainable maximin income should decrease over time. I provide a formal definition and study applications to an AK economy, a Ramsey economy, and a Climate Economy. Generosity is...
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Of Morals, Markets and Mice: A Comment on Falk and Szech
Breyer, Friedrich; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2014
A recent experimental study by Falk and Szech (Science, 2013) concludes that „markets erode moral values”. If this were true, economists, who have emphasized the efficiency enhancing effects of markets for centuries, would have to reconsider their judgments fundamentally. This would be no...
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Measuring Health Inequality with Categorical Data: Some Regional Patterns
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013
Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty through in-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - CESifo - 2013
(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877897
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Direct Distribution of Rents and the Resource Curse in Iran: A Micro-econometric Analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - CESifo - 2014
tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; … - CESifo - 2012
domestic prices. Under perfect pass-through, the mandate leads to a reduction in rural poverty by about 39 million people, and … poverty increase by a total of 8 million people. Our study suggests that the US biofuel mandate may lead to modest increase in …
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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty: A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N.; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - CESifo - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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