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Assessing welfare accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265550
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Assessing Welfare Accounts
Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Mike; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233864
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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584679
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A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451186
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Looking for a Star: Evaluating the Effect of the Cohesion Policy on Regional Well-Being
Albanese, Giuseppe; Carrieri, Vincenzo; Speziali, Maria … - 2021
This paper presents new evidence on the last concluded wave (2007-2013) of the EU cohesion policy. We depart from the broadly used GDP-growth approach and evaluate the impact of EU Structural Funds (SFs) on a battery of regional well-being indicators including economic, educational, health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658100
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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882556
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Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being – solidarity (S) and agency (A) – to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180191
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861085
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Milgrom, Eva M. Meyersson - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
gender attentiveness among MBA students and tolerance for large variability in CEO pay. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762318
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Capital Fundamentalism and Structural Transformation
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
We revisit the role of Capital Fundamentalism, in the context of the Government of Indonesia's Inpres Desa Tertinggal (IDT or Left Behind Village) Program, which injected capital into poor village economies. We evaluate the impact of the program on village welfare and structural transformation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597590