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Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191406
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Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
and redistribution of income generalise to the family of indices based on the extended Ginis of Donaldson and Weymark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191766
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … poor and indifferent to each other. Section 6 reviews the theory of Pareto-efficient redistribution in pure distributive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
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You, me and the mean : a semiparametric approach to the redistributive effects of transfer programs
Garcia-Medina, B. Cecilia - 2016
I examine how changes in the receipt of social transfers benefits associated to program reforms have affected the Canadian income distribution over the 1996-2006 period. Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, I apply nonparametric decomposition methods to construct density...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547623
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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget
König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513031
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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views
Andre, Peter - 2021
Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614805
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108653
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2018
lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and -transfer system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795062
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2017
lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780780
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"They Never Had a Chance" : unequal opportunities and fair redistributions
Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo; Lien, Jaimie W - 2022 - This Version: July 6, 2022
lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328107