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The Role and Nature of Non-Contributory Social Security in the Design of Social Protection Strategies for Older People in DCs

McKinnon, Roddy; Sigg, Roland - eSocialSciences - 2006

Non-contributory social security is increasingly attracting the attention of developing country policymakers and observers, not least as a mechanism to help address the perceived failure of contributory social security to reduce poverty in developing countries. This development is most visible...

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Beyond Collusion, Altruism or Duty: Introducing Solidarity to Economics and Game Theory.

Arnsperger, C.; Varoufakis, Y. - School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - 1999

This paper argues in favour of introducing solidarity into economics as a new analytical category of human motivation …

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A reexamination of welfare states from an institutional perspective

Sasaki, Norio - In: Journal of Economic Studies 33 (2006) September, pp. 189-205

Japan's case, and to give a literary examination of that kind of thoughts in modern economics and theory of public finance …. Design/methodology/approach – Compares neo-institutional economics and fiscal sociology about the role of a government, using … recent fiscal data of developed countries. Findings – For neo-institutional economics it is difficult to explain “welfare …

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Emissions Trading and Social Justice

Farber, Daniel A - Law, Economics and Institutions, Boalt School of Law - 2011

Cap and trade is controversial in part because of claims that it is unjust, an issue that was highlighted by recent litigation against Californiaâ€™s proposed carbon market. This essay considers an array of fairness issues relating to cap and trade. In terms of fairness to industry, the...

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Family Bargaining and Welfare

Rubalcava, Luis; Thomas, Duncan - RAND - 2000

Recent research on household behavior suggests that, ceteris paribus, a woman's "power" within a household influences consumption and time allocation choices. From an empirical point of view, a central stumbling block in this line of inquiry has been identification of sources of "power" that can...

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Nash - Walras Equilibria.

Ghosal, S; Polemarchakis, H - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1995

At a Nash-Walras equilibrium, individuals exchange commodities competitively, and, simultaneously, they interact strategically. Under standard assumptions, Nash-Walras equilibria exist, equilibrium profiles of actions are, typically, determinate byt Pareto suboptimal, though not constrained...

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Simulation Estimates on the Net Employment Impacts of Six Employment Subsidy Programs for Long-Term Welfare Recipients in Canada.

Greenberg, D.H.; Meyer, D.R.; Robins, P.; Michalopoulos, C. - Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, … - 1992

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Family Bargaining and Welfare.

Rubalcava, L.; Thomas, D. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 2000

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Ratio Equilibria and Voting in a Public Goods Economy with Jurisdictions.

Currarini, S - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1996

In two related papers, Kanedo (1977, 1977a) has proved an equibalence theorem relating the set of ratio equilibria of a public goods economy to the core of a strong voting game. This paper extends in two ways Kaneko's analysis to economies with jurisdictions, each producing a spedific public good.

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Does Competition Make Firms More Flexible? A Study of Limited Managerial Cognition.

Stennek, J. - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1993

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