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Premature Deaths, Accidental Bequests and Fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc - 2018
While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
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Adverse Selection vs Discrimination Risk with Genetic Testing. An Experimental Approach
Bardey, David; De Donder, Philippe; Mantilla, Cesar - 2021
a disease (a discrimination risk). Differently, Consent Law allows them to hide this detrimental information, creating … exogenous values of adverse selection under Consent Law, and the repeated interactions experiment devised has not resulted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315562
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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...
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Migration, Congestion and Growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2017
This article analyzes the effect of migration from a less advanced economy to a more advanced economy on economic growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration...
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Refugee Resettlement, Redistribution and Growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018
This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less advanced and less wealthy economy combined with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918058
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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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Discrimination in Dynamic Procurement Design with Learning-by-Doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre - 2021
paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries …
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Discrimination and Employment Protection
Holden, Steinar; Rosen, Asa - 2021
sustaining discrimination. In contrast to standard models, the existence of employers with a taste for discrimination may make it …
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The Gini Coefficient and Personal Inequality Measurement
Davies, James B. - 2017
polarization in advanced countries and to broad increases or decreases in income dispersion are explored …
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences : Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...
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