welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a … welfare function, we are able to endow the function with a social-psychological underpinning, showing that this function, too … booster of social welfare in Sen's social welfare function. Quite surprisingly, we find that a marginal increase of income for …

welfare, and if social welfare is reduced by social stress, then lowering the Gini coefficient may not be the right course of …

situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in relative income, with the result that global social welfare is …-measured) social welfare, if the absolute income gains are not large enough to mitigate the relative income losses …

by maximizing the natives' social welfare function that incorporates these considerations. We find that as long as the … the asylum seekers in proportion to the population of each country, aggregate welfare will be maximized through an …

This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of … in the face of the very aim of their introduction: the welfare of the native laborers will take a beating …