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The spread of anti-trafficking policies: Evidence from a new index
Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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Theoretical unification in justice and beyond
Jasso, Guillermina - 2007
examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267778
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Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model
Jasso, Guillermina - 2008
paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. …
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The Evolution of Income-Related Inequalities in Health Care Utilization in Switzerland over Time
Leu, Robert E.; Schellhorn, Martin - 2004
This study investigates equity in access to health care in Switzerland over time, using nationwide representative survey data from 1982, 1992, 1997 and 2002. Both simple quintile distributions and concentration indices are used to assess horizontal equity, i.e. the extent to which adults in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262059
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The Evolution of Income-Related Health Inequalities in Switzerland over Time
Leu, Robert E.; Schellhorn, Martin - 2004
This paper presents new evidence on income-related health inequality and its development over time in Switzerland. We employ the methods lined out in van Doorslaer and Jones (2003) and van Doorslaer and Koolman (2004) measuring health using an interval regression approach to compute...
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Is a flat tax feasible in a grown-up welfare state?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2007
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...
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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective
Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268706
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Distributive justice and CEO compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - 2007
executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists …, based on justice theory and making use of Rossi's factorial survey method, enables assessment of ideas of fairness in CEO …
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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?
Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2007
In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...
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Preferences for redistribution
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009
This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General...
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