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This article examines recent and potential reforms in India’s fiscal federal system. We summarize key federal institutions in India, including tax and expenditure assignments, and mechanisms for Center-state transfers. We discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take...
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In this paper we analyze the problem of population ageing in terms of non-medical care needs of persons who are dependent or have lost their autonomy, in order to provide the various public and private administrations active in these fields with some food for thought. The anticipated increase in...
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This paper sought to investigate how economic growth affects the disparity in regional income distribution in Poland and vice versa. The research was based on annual data covering the period 2000–2009. In general, the research was divided into two main parts. First, we wanted to examine the...
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This study investigates inequality of opportunity in educational achievements in Turkey over time. For this purpose we use test scores of PISA in mathematics, science and reading achievement of 15-year-olds over the period 2003-2012. Since the different waves of the samples cover only a fraction...
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A child’s access to health care and minimum nutrition should not depend on circumstances such as caste, religion, gender, place of birth, or other parental characteristics, which are beyond the control of a child. This paper uses two rounds of Indian National Family Health Surveys and concepts...
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The paper associates inequality of opportunities with outcome differences that can be accounted by pre-determined circumstances which lie beyond the control of an individual, such as parental education, parental occupation, caste, religion and place of birth. The overall opportunity share...
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Pay What You Want (PWYW) pricing has received considerable attention recently. Empirical studies show that when PWYW pricing is implemented buyers do not behave selfishly in a number of cases and that some sellers are able to use PWYW to increase turnover as well as profits. In this paper we...
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left to parties’ fairness. According to the previous literature we find that (1) the choice between the two contract … settings in equilibrium depends on fairness and enforcement costs, and (2) whenever a non-enforceable contract is chosen in … should intervene only in the last case, even in the presence of high levels of fairness. Our results are robust and hold in a …
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be generous, what is the motive, i.e., either they fear rejection or do they have a preference for fairness, and (iii) Is …, would show a greater concern for fairness rather than fear of rejection. As is evident, the results of this study prove …
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We replace the axiom of fairness used in the characterization of the Myerson value (Myerson, 1977) by fairness for … neighbors in order to characterize the component-wise egalitarian solution. When a link is broken, fairness states the two … players incident to the link should be affected similarly while fairness for neighbors states that a player incident to the …
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