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Welfare as simple(x) equity equivalents
Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017
Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions.We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...
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Trade liberalization and welfare inequality : a demand-based approach
Tarasov, Alexander - 2010
trade liberalization can affect welfare inequality within a country via changes in the relative prices of goods consumed by … environment that leads to variable markups affected by trade and trade costs. I find that trade liberalization does affect the … show that the relative welfare of the rich with respect to that of the poor has a hump shape as a function of trade costs. …
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Trade liberalization and welfare inequality : a demand-based approach
Tarasov, Alexander - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 4, pp. 1296-1317
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Trade Liberalization and Welfare Inequality : A Demand-Based Approach
Tarasov, Alexander - 2010
trade liberalization can affect welfare inequality within a country via changes in the relative prices of goods consumed by … environment that leads to variable markups affected by trade and trade costs. I find that trade liberalization does affect the … show that the relative welfare of the rich with respect to that of the poor has a hump shape as a function of trade costs …
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Social welfare, inequality and deprivation
Magdalou, Brice (contributor); Moyes, Patrick (contributor) - 2008
We provide a characterization of the generalised satisfaction - in our terminology nondeprivation - quasi-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation...
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Chapter 2 Measurement of inequality
Cowell, F.A. - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 87-166). 2000
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2012
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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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William - 2016
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/10013006909
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Inequality and Incentives with Societal Other-Regarding Preferences
Bental, Benjamin; Kragl, Jenny - 2021
The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of societal other-regarding preferences affect labor relationships and incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and...
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The median voter takes it all : preferences for redistribution and income inequality in the EU-28
Colagrossi, Marco; Karagiannis, Stelios; Raab, Roman - 2019
The relation between income inequality and support for redistributive policies has long being debated by social scientists, albeit with mostly contrasting findings. We shed light on this puzzle by exploiting a novel EU-28 wide survey (Eurobarometer 471) and matching it with an array of regional...
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