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Compensating the dead? Yes we can!
FLEURBAEY, Marc; LEROUX, Marie - Louise; PONTHIERE, Gregory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2010
An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite the above difficulties, a compensation can be carried …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836160
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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation
Tungodden, Bertil - 2001
this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic … ethics of compensation, and we report an impossibility result that clarifies the source of this conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399693
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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006
This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...
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Voting for redistribution under desert-sensitive altruism
LUTTENS, R. I.; VALFORT, M.A. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2008
We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy. When altruistic preferences are desert-sensitive, i.e. when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009392891
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Utilitarianism and unequal longevities : A remedy?
LEROUX, Marie - Louise; PONTHIERE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2010
redistribute resources from short-lived towards long-lived agents, against any intuition of compensation. It is shown that this … modified utilitarian optimum involves a compensation of short-lived agents with respect to the laissez-faire. That remedy is … opportunities to spread resources over time (due to a shorter life), but, also, by lost savings (due to unanticipated death). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836153
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Voting for redistribution under desert-sensitive altruism
LUTTENS, Roland Iwan; VALFORT, Marie-Anne - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy. When altruistic preferences are desert-sensitive, i.e. when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043686
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Les enjeux du revenu de solidarité active (RSA)
MONGIN, Philippe - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2010
Créé par une loi du 1er décembre 2008, le revenu de solidarité active (RSA remplace depuis le 1er juin 2009 deux minima sociaux, le revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI) et l'allocation de parent isolé (API), sur les neuf que comptait le système français. Il est conçu pour aider les...
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Teach a Man to Fish? Education vs. Optimal Taxation
Stephens, Eric L G - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2010
In models of redistribution, diff erences in human capital are often the relevant source of heterogeneity amongst individuals. Presumably, the distribution of human capital can be manipulated through education spending. This paper examines the use of education as a redistributive tool when there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676567
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - CESifo - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228621
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The perception of distributive fairness and optimal taxation under uncertainty
Weinreich, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper incorporates a preference for distributive fairness (inequity aversion) into the analysis on optimal redistributive taxation under uncertainty. We can show that introducing or strengthening the taste for distributive fairness does not affect the socially optimal tax rate (social...
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