Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 755
Cover Image
The Moral High Ground: An Experimental Study of Spectator Impartiality
Konow, James - 2008
This paper proposes and tests an empirical model of impartiality, inspired by Adam Smith (1759), that is based on the … and consensus. This informs a vignette experiment that elicits moral judgments about real world policy issues while … varying the information conditions (relevant and irrelevant information) and roles (spectator and stakeholder) of respondents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219017
Cover Image
Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; van der Maesen, Laurent J.G. - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015216169
Cover Image
Mortality Regressivity and Pension Design
Pashchenko, Svetlana; Jang, Youngsoo; Porapakkarm, Ponpoje - 2024
Should public policies address inequality due to heterogeneous life expectancy? Intuitively, taking short life as a disadvantage, such policies should favor those with high mortality. Yet, pension systems implicitly redistribute from low-life-expectancy to high-life-expectancy people. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214435
Cover Image
Estado y política pública en Colombia
Estrada, Fernando - 2012
Our hypothesis: during the twentieth century governments used state emergency measures to overcome its economic crisis. Such measures did better on the revenue in fiscal expenditures, thereby caused severe imbalances of public policy. It holds that in Colombia there has been no welfare state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015234469
Cover Image
Measuring a Territorial Labor Market Development Index
Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo; Cardozo-Medeiros, Diego; … - 2014
There is a widespread debate on the importance of the quality of labor, which is the requirement for wages to cover basic needs and provide people with a decent way of life and fostering development at the same time. This paper proposes to measure a labor market development index, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015241636
Cover Image
Inequidades y Ausencia de Criterios Explícitos de Reparto: La distribución del Presupuesto Nacional a las provincias en el periodo post crisis (2004-2007)
Uña, Gerardo; Cogliandro, Gisell; Bertello, Nicolas - 2009
As part of a broader discussion of fiscal federalism in Argentina, this research analyzes the role of the National Budget as an instrument of resource allocation that has an impact located in the provinces. To do this, we consider the evolution between 2004 and 2007 transfers and budget programs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220784
Cover Image
La Riforma del Welfare, il Paygo, i nuovi Ammortizzatori per il Mercato del Lavoro
Salerno, Nicola Carmine; Pammolli, Fabio - 2012
The scale of PayGo has a maximum level of functioning over which nevative effects prevail over positive ones. This means that, with almost all PayGo possibilities dedicated to pensions and health care (acute and Ltc), little or nothing remains for financing unemployment benefits schemes or other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015231799
Cover Image
Does Credit Composition Have Asymmetric Effects on Income Inequality?
Seven, Unal; Kilinc, Dilara; Coskun, Yener - 2017
This paper studies the effects of credit to private non-financial sectors on income inequality. In particular, we focus on the distinction between household and firm credit, and investigate whether these two types of credit have adverse effects on income inequality. Using balanced panel data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257892
Cover Image
Desarrollo Territorial Rural en America Latina: Discurso y Realidades
Mora-Alfaro, Jorge - 2006
The reorientation occurred in the socioeconomic, politic and institutional development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries, since 80's decade, provoke significant transformations in the regional rural spaces. The socioeconomic bipolarization is one of the most remarkable phenomena in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015259343
Cover Image
Establishing a comprehensive census of undergraduate economics curricula:Foundational and special requirements for major programs in the U.S.
Turner, Grant - 2018
This study is the first of a series of studies, collectively embodying a multiphase mixed methods design. The overall objective of these studies is to explore and address a variety of issues and features of the discipline of economics, particularly as they relate to and represent past present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220548