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Sozialversicherung als Umverteilungsinstrument bei asymmetrischer Information
Scheuer, Florian - 2005
I examine the question whether social insurance is an appropriate means of redistribution in the presence of an …
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The effects of technical and organizational change on labor markets
Gärtner, Dennis - 2001
A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.
Wacker, Ulrich - 2002
ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in … market issues established by human capital theory with the general equilibrium-leddebate on trade and the functional … ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in …
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INEQUALITY, INSTITUTIONS AND REDISTRIBUTION
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk - 2005
This dissertation explores the role of efficiency of redistributive institutions (ERI)on redistribution. The first … between incomeinequality and redistribution. This chapter first shows that even exogenously given ERIaffects the relationship … between income inequality and redistribution. Then, it introducesthree specifications to endogenize ERI. In these various …
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Join the Leader, Imitate or Follow: Evolutionary Stable Strategies in the Commons
Schott, Stephan - 2010
"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of …
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Politischer Wandel und Sozialpolitik in Taiwan : Volkskrankenversicherung und Gesetzentwurf des neuen Rentensystems als Beispielfälle
Chou, Yi-Chun - 2002
Erfahrungen. So lieferte z.B. in Taiwan die durch politische Demokratisierung entstandene Auflösung des autoritären Regimes und …
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Financial frictions and the wealth distribution
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Hurtado López, Samuel; … - 2020
We postulate a nonlinear DSGE model with a financial sector and heterogeneous households. In our model, the interaction between the supply of bonds by the financial sector and the precautionary demand for bonds by households produces significant endogenous aggregate risk. This risk induces an...
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Wealth inequality and household structure : US vs. Spain
Bover Hidiroglu, Olympia - 2008
We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons using household data for the US and Spain (the SCF and the EFF). We estimate counterfactual US distributions relying on the Spanish household structure. Our results show that...
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Controlling a distribution of heterogeneous agents
Nuño Barrau, Galo; Moll, Benjamin - 2015
Este artículo analiza el problema de un planificador benevolente que desea controlar una población de agentes heterogéneos sujetos a perturbaciones idiosincrásticas. Esto es equivalente a un problema de control determinista en el que la variable de estado pertinente es la distribución de...
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Ökonomie des Sozialstaats
Breyer, Friedrich; Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2009
In Deutschland werden mehr als 30 Prozent des Sozialprodukts für Soziales ausgegeben, und der Staat greift mit seinen Sozialgesetzen massiv in die Handlungsfreiheit seiner Bürger ein. In diesem Buch werden normative Begründungen sowohl für staatliche Umverteilungsmaßnahmen als auch für die...
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