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Language rights : a welfare-economics approach

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015

Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...

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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...

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Inequality of opportunity and income redistribution

Preuß, Marcel; Reyes, Germán; Somerville, Jason; Wu, Joyce - 2023

We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and whether luck magnified workers' effort ("lucky...

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(In-)equality of opportunity, fairness, and distributional preferences

Fehr, Dietmar; Müller, Daniel; Preuß, Marcel - 2022

This paper examines how perceived importance of family background affect distributional pref-erences using two large-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income and economic success later in life, which renders...

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Distributive justice and social conflict in an AK model

Tsoukis, Christopher; Itaya, Jun-ichi - 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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Unemployment in a just economy

Komlos, John - 2016

This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which …

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Justice under uncertainty

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2013

An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …

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Moral judgments in social dilemmas : how bad is free riding?

Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2010

distributive justice. Here we study people's normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and …

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The Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2013

We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...

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A fairness justification of utilitarianism

Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2016

Differences in preferences are important to explain variation in individuals' behavior. There is however no consensus on how to take these differences into account when evaluating policies. While prominent in the economic literature, the standard utilitarian criterion faces two major...

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