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In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
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In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112981
This paper derives a basic formula for the measure of social welfare, a second order approximation to the difference of the value of the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function between the socially optimal resource allocation and the one in the present suboptimal economy. We discuss pros and...
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efficiency and equity of the final outcome. Furthermore, these tendencies are stronger when the two players have conflicting …
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(intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the discounted expected utilitarianism approach. We propose a general … measure of welfare as equity equivalents and develop the corresponding inequity index. We then allow for different degrees of …
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We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...
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urbanization, with and without equity consideration, respectively. It is shown that considering equity will result in a higher … those that did not. Finally, we explore possible equity consideration-to-urbanization transmission channels, and empirically … establish that equity consideration in PRC (e.g., government initiatives towards combating rural poverty or the urban-rural gap …
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Acknowledging individuals' distaste for low relative income renders trade less appealing when trade is viewed as a technology that integrates economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are overtaken by losses of...
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Acknowledging individuals' distaste for low relative income renders trade less appealing when trade is viewed as a technology that integrates economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are overtaken by losses of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847822
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....
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