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Just how good is unemployment as a measure of welfare? : a policy note
Dios, Emmanuel S. de; Dinglasan, Katrina - 2014
The government is rightly concerned with employment generation to make growth inclusive. The use of the open unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is...
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Just how good is unemployment as a measure of welfare? : a note
Dios, Emmanuel S. de; Dinglasan, Katrina - In: The Philippine review of economics : a joint … 52 (2015) 2, pp. 234-245
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Wealth and welfare : divergent moral reactions to ethical consumer choices
Olson, Jenny G.; McFerran, Brent; Morales, Andrea C.; … - In: Journal of consumer research : JCR ; an … 42 (2015/2016) 6, pp. 879-896
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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Is funding a large universal basic income feasible? : a quantitative analysis of UBI with endogenous labour supply
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jaravel, Xavier - In: LSE public policy review 1 (2020) 2, pp. 1-11
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Paradoxes of social policy : welfare transfers, relative poverty, and redistribution preferences
Brady, David; Bostic, Amie - 2015
average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … equality. Specifically, we investigate the relationships between three dimensions of welfare transfers - transfer share (the …
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Universal basic income: a critique
Iglesias, David; Block, Walter - In: Romanian economic and business review 14 (2019) 3, pp. 7-18
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 6, pp. 1-17
This paper provides a normative justification for the use of a minimum wage as a redistributive tool in a competitive labor market. We show that a government interested in improving the wellbeing of the deserving poor, while being less concerned with their undeserving counterparts, can use a...
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Price opinion data in subsidized economies : empirical evidence from Iraq
Abuelhaj, Tareq; Gassmann, Franziska; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2018
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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