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The fair-minded rich and healthy? : (youth) unemployment, inequality and fairness concerns in preferences for redistribution
Armbruster, Stephanie - 2020
Do rising inequality and youth unemployment aect preferences for redistribution? Using country-level European survey … data from 2002 to 2015, I show that changes in market inequality and the rise of (youth) unemployment increase preferences … market income inequality and (youth) unemployment. The preferences of the relatively rich and healthy are more responsive to …
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Chapter 35 Equity in health
Williams, Alan; Cookson, Richard - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1863-1910). 2000
Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime....
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Envy in the Market Economy : Sin, Fairness, and Spontaneous (Dis)Order
Ballor, Jordan J. - 2015
This paper explores the problem of envy (“sadness at another's good”) from both theological and economic perspectives. The theological analysis helps show why envy is a perennial feature of human existence and an ongoing problem for ordered and flourishing social life. The economic analysis...
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Growing Justice : Justice Policies and Transaction Costs
Barendrecht, Maurits - 2015
This paper reviews the literature on policies aiming to improve the rule of law and the operation of a legal system. It takes a bottom up perspective of clients seeking access to justice and uses transaction costs on the market for justice as a criterion to evaluate justice policies. Most...
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The Justice Innovation Approach : How Justice Sector Leaders in Development Contexts Can Promote Innovation
Muller, Sam - 2013
In 'Delivering Justice: Programme of Action to Strengthen the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels', the Secretary-General of the United Nations, argued that the rule of law involves more than the state and its institutions: it “is at the heart of the social contract between...
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Fairness und ihr Preis
Schneider, Andrea - 2010
Based on the premise that fairness is different from equity and that it is primarily used in informal contexts we present an economic approach to fairness. Discussing the results of behavioral economics reveals the experience that people do not accept a monetary offer even if that collides with...
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Fairness Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Unethical Behavior
James, Jr., Harvey S. - 2020
If people think or expect that others are kind, ethical or fair, are they more likely to be kind, ethical and fair in their own judgments and behaviors? Answering this question is difficult because of the confluence of individual, institutional and other-regarding factors that affect ethical...
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Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of the Social Contract
Cordes, Christian; Schubert, Christian - 2005
This paper delivers a step toward a naturalistic foundation of the social contract. While mainstream social contract theory is based on an original position model that is defined in an aprioristic way, we endogenize its key elements, i.e., develop them out of the individuals' moral common sense....
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Not Guilty? : Another Look at the Nature and Nurture of Economics Students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
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Driving forces behind informal sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...
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