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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756257
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Comparing the influence of conflict on the perceptions of rich and poor : testing the hypothesis of Acemoglu and Robinson
Yamamura, Eiji - 2014
Conflict can cause negative externalities to arise, and this can result in economic loss. Such externalities are also … this hypothesis, the present paper explores how the degree of conflict between rich and poor people is associated with … where people perceive conflict between rich and poor to be high; (2) an individual is more likely to consider the income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384375
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Exposure to conflict, migrations and long-run education and income inequality : evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Efendic, Adnan; Kovač, Dejan; Shapiro, Jacob N. - 2022
We investigate the long-term relationship between conflict-related migration and individual socioeconomic inequality …. Looking at the post-conflict environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a former Yugoslav state most heavily impacted by the … histories. We find that individuals with greater exposure to conflict had systematically worse educational performance and lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163179
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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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The distributional impact of the Sierra Leone conflict on household welfare
Reilly, Barry; Sam, Hannah - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-41
three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the … experienced a sharp reduction in household expenditure inequality in the immediate aftermath of the conflict with most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014328817
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The effect of better information on income inequality
Eckwert, Bernhard; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2003
We consider an OLG economy with endogenous investment in human capital. Heterogeneity in individual human capital levels is generated by random innate ability. The production of human capital depends on each individual s investment in education. This investment decision is taken only after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507996
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Uncertainty and the demand for redistribution
Molnár, György; Kapitány, Zsuzsa - 2006
In this paper we focus on the connection between perception of the competitive pressure situation (unemployment, uncertainty, rising income and wealth inequalities, decreasing mobility) and demand for redistribution. Our context is Hungary, between 2000 and 2002. We identify some basic variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560839
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Capital Income, Risky Investments, and Income and Cash-Flow Taxation
Sims, Theodore S. - 2014
It has become conventional wisdom, based partly on postulated portfolio adjustments by investors in risky assets, (1) to view an income tax as equivalent to a tax levied only on the risk free return to capital and as therefore equivalent to a wealth tax; and (2) to view the difference between an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065563
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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
Cunha, Flavio - 2008
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773658
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Roads to Equality : Wealth Distribution Dynamics with Public-Private Capital Complementarity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008
This paper proposes a model of wealth distribution dynamics with a capital market imperfection and a production function where public capital is complementary to private capital. A unique invariant steady-state distribution is derived, with three social classes: subsistence workers, 'government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771170