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Happiness, growth, and public policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?
Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006
Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...
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Taxation and the worlds of welfare
Prasad, Monica; Deng, Yingying - In: Socio-economic review 7 (2009) 3, pp. 431-457
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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzyński, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin - 2016
High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration - often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from developing countries. In this paper, we provide a global...
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Offshoring, globalization, and welfare
Zhou, Yiming; Zeng, Dao-Zhi - In: The North American journal of economics and finance : a … 31 (2015), pp. 75-93
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Welfare and competition
Scitovsky, Tibor - 1971 - Rev. ed.
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Globalisation, welfare retrenchment and "the logic of no alternative" : why second-best won't do
Hay, Colin - In: Journal of social policy : the journal of the Social … 27 (1998) 4, pp. 525-532
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Taxation and the Worlds of Welfare
Prasad, Monica - 2010
We use Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data to compare the progressivity of the tax structure in the USA and Europe. LIS data allow a comparison of tax rates that attempts to take different starting rates, thresholds and exemptions into account. Our study supports the argument others have made...
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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michal; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2016
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Welfare and Competition.
Scitovsky, Tibor - 2003
Dealing with general economic theory, other than employment theory, the book discusses the theory of pure and … Importance of Time and Habit -- IV. THE CONSUMERS' MARKET AND THE NOTION OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY -- 1. The Efficiency of … Distribution -- 2. Equity and Efficiency -- NOTE TO CHAPTER IV: Productive Efficiency and the Size of the National Product -- V …
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