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We study the implications of limited commitment on education and tax policies chosen by benevolent governments. Individual wages are determined by both innate abilities and education levels. Consistent with real world practices, the government can decide to subsidize different levels of...
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presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …
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We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Specifically, we adopt a unique identification strategy to examine the heterogeneous causal effects of the COVID-19 economic shutdown by governments on hours worked across the...
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In this paper, the method of deriving the parameter ε of inequality aversion from a parametric distribution of incomes … constant inequality aversion utility function and that incomes obey the generalised beta distribution of the second kind GB2(a …) interval. The mid-point εmid of this interval specifies inequality aversion of the median socialdecision maker. The maximum …
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the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …
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