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A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2013
; the first assesses the social welfare implications of changes in household income distributions over the business cycle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329031
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Selective immigration policies, migrants' education and welfare at origin
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert - 2010
Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more selective immigration policies reduce social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330114
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Switching Queues, Cultural Conventions, and Social Welfare
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2019
We use queuing-related behavior as an instrument for assessing the social appeal of alternative cultural norms. Specifically, we study the behavior of rational and sophisticated individuals who stand in a given queue waiting to be served, and who, in order to speed up the process, consider...
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The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income
Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2004
productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio between estimated potential labor income and the welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262161
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Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies : From Households to Individuals
Bargain, Olivier - 2004
household labor supply and a microsimulation program of the French taxbenefit system. The collective approach allows studying … rather than an ambiguous concept of household welfare. This way, the planner?s preferences address not only inter-household … inequalities but also intra-household inequalities often neglected in the literature. The other contribution of the paper derives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262173
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Distribution of wealth and interdependent preferences
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2008
We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or negative utility from the leisure of the other (non-social) individual. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268569
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Formality, informality, and social welfare
Bennett, John - 2008
is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, product demand and various parameter values …. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which informality is prohibited. With relatively high product demand, the … profit is redistributed towards more able entrepreneurs. With relatively low product demand the opposite effects obtain. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268865
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Why praise inequality? Public good provision, income distribution and social welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269097
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On the measurement of long-term income inequality and income mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2010
This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating the income stream of each individual into a measure of permanent income, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269542
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Health and income: a robust comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269622