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Intra-Provincial Inequalities and Economic Growth in China
Kochanowicz, Jacek; Rymaszewska, Joanna; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper approaches the problem of inequalities in China. It is specifically focused on analyzing the effects of …. One, more “European”, or “social/Christian/democratic” is that too much inequality is morally hard to accept and also bad …, economic inequality is not a reason for concern, that it is inevitable (reflecting varying endowments of individuals) and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105692
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Meltzer-Richard and social mobility hypothesis: revisiting the income-redistribution nexus using German choice data
Pfarr, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Whereas the supply of redistribution is relatively easy to measure, the determinants of the demand for redistribution are controversially discussed in international literature. Economic theory typically models redistribution as the result of a voting mechanism; this is only inadequately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259582
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From the lab to the field: envelopes, dictators and manners
Stoop, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro-social behavior. This paper builds a bridge from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652044
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Income redistribution: how to divide the pie?
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, we elicit preferences of Swiss citizens for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008. Neustadt and Zweifel (2009} provide an estimate of the total desired amount of income redistribution as a share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644924
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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
that government should reduce income inequality exhibit a negative WTP on average. The major finding is that estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622243
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You can't always get what you want - East and West Germans' attitudes and preferences regarding the welfare state
Pfarr, Christian; Schmid, Andreas; Ulrich, Volker - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
More than twenty years after the fall of the iron curtain, do citizens from former Communist countries still exhibit attitudes and preferences with regard to the welfare state and income redistribution that differ from those in the West? This paper seeks to answer this question for Germany after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111085
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Guilt aversion and peer effects in crime: experimental and empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Shoji, Masahiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
I conducted an artefactual field experiment to identify whether guilt reduces crime, and how the crime reduction effects of guilt change due to peer effects. Guilt aversion predicts the occurrence of peer effects caused by changes in guilt sensitivity and belief. I found supporting evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113251
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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components
Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between …-component inequality. Specifically, inequality in education and health expenditure components were the largest contributors to overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252595
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Trust in government and its effect on preferences for income redistribution and perceived tax burden
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper explores how a trust in government shared by neighbors is associated with individual preferences for income redistribution and individual perceptions regarding income tax burden. Three measures for trust in government are used: “trust in ministries and government agencies”,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258693
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Generalizations of the FKKM Theorem and Ky-Fan Minimax Inequality, with Applications to Maximal Elements, Price Equilibrium, and Complementarity
Tian, Guoqiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1990
Topics,” pp. 151–156, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979; and Math. Ann.266, 1984, 519–537) and the Ky Fan minimax inequality by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258975