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Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits?
Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521090
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874411
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Equity and equality
Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2006
thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and wellbeing. The most likely ethical basis for HE appears to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003467009
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Theoretical unification in justice and beyond
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2007
examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and … five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces -- justice, status, and power -- and the subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003460687
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Luck or rights? : an experiment on preferences for redistribution following inheritance of opportunity
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, … - 2022
We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of opportunity handed down from the 'testator' subjects determines later redistributive decisions among...
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Fighting climate change: the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand Chopra, Felix; … - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change - as measured through an incentivized donation decision - is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
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The causal effect of education on climate literacy and pro-environmental behaviours : evidence from a nationwide natural experiment
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
There is a widespread belief that a lack of education is the primary cause of public apathy to climate change. Yet, despite the global campaign to promote education as a tool to combat global warming, empirical evidence on the causal effect of education on climate literacy and pro-environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210723
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Digital and competing information sources : impact on environmental concern and prospects for cooperation
Udalov, Vladimir; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017
the World Value Survey (WVS), the main purpose of our analysis is to investigate the effect of different information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641398
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Inequality of opportunity, income inequality and economic mobility : some international comparisons
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2013
Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696905