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Bug-fixing and code-writing : the private provision of open source software
Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2002
Open source software (OSS) is a public good. A self-interested individual would consider providing such software, if the benefits he gained from having it justified the cost of programming. Nevertheless each agent is tempted to free ride and wait for others to develop the software instead. This...
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Competition and innovation in a technology setting software duopoly
Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2003
Recently the software industry has experienced fundamental changes in market structure through the entry of open source competitors, e.g. Linux's entry into the operating systems market. In a simple model we examine the effects of such a change in market structure from monopoly to duopoly under...
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A switch from joint to individual taxation is welfare improving
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2011
In this paper we empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint taxation with full income splitting to a … revenue neutral system of individual taxation in Germany. For the empirical welfare evaluation we estimate the preference … heterogeneity in the population and use normative welfare concepts proposed in Fleurbaey (2006) to solve the difficulties of …
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2017
In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing lifetime earnings between individuals with different skill endowments and by providing individuals with insurance against lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle...
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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory implications for poverty measurement
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022
Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their reduced ability to share goods within the household. This...
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Institutionelle Determinanten der Erwerbsarbeit : zur Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Holst, Elke - 2001
die Allokation von Ressourcen. Anhand dreier Thesen wird die Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive (soziale Konstruktion …
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Decomposing permanent and transitory poverty
Goebel, Jan - 2001
This paper proposes a new method of calculating the proportion of permanently impoverished persons among persons in poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method...
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Target shortfall orderings and indices
Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Mulière, … - 2003
Given any income distribution, to each income we associate a subgroup containing all persons whose incomes are not higher than this income and a person's target shortfall in a subgroup is the gap between the subgroup highest income and his own income. We then develop an absolute target shortfall...
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The measurement of social exclusion
Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2003 - This version July 2003
This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of social exclusion. At the individual level, social exclusion is viewed in terms of deprivation of the person concerned with respect to different functionings in the society. At the aggregate level we treat social exclusion as a...
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Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design
Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2000
. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the … different types of weights have different implications for the sampling distribution of estimators of welfare indices. …
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