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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare : An Economic Exploration

Doepke, Matthias - 2013

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows.I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …

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Technological Change and Employment : Were Ricardo and Marx Right?

Piva, Mariacristina - 2017

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological change are disentangled starting from the classical economists to nowadays theoretical and empirical analyses. On the other hand, an empirical test is provided; in particular,...

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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisonsand their Welfare Effects

Senik, Claudia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect onsubjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types ofbenchmarks...

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Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy:Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil

Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations onunemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricterenforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal workers) leads to: higherunemployment, less income...

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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?

Clark, Andrew - 2011

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always...

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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation

Joffily, Mateus - 2011

We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available. The application of sanctions activates a...

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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

Kuhn, Andreas - 2011

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are...

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Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion : Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

Griffin, John D. - 2011

The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game, where...

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Trends in Individual Income Growth : Measurement Methods and British Evidence

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2011

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...

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Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods

Kölle, Felix - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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