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Monotonic redistribution of performance-based allocations: a case for proportional taxation

Casajus, André - In: Theoretical Economics 10 (2015) 3, pp. 887-892

monotonicity. Efficiency: redistribution has no cost. Symmetry: members of the society with the same performance obtain the same … reward after redistribution. Monotonicity: whenever both the performance of a certain member of the society as well as the … overall performance of the society do not decrease, then this member's reward after redistribution does not decrease. …

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Preferences for redistribution in Europe

Olivera, Javier - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 14, pp. 1-18

redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002-2012. The data is drawn from the six available waves of the European … redistribution over time. Though this result is predicted by standard political economy models, it has found little previous … redistribution. The empirical results hold after performing a variety of robustness checks regarding the construction of pseudo …

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Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity

Schöb, Ronnie - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

-being. Labor market policies designed to help the unemployed may not overcome their misery: wage subsidies can be stigmatizing …

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Can intergenerational equity be operationalized?

Zame, William R. - In: Theoretical Economics 2 (2007) 2, pp. 187-202

A long Utilitarian tradition has the ideal of equal regard for all individuals, both those now living and those yet to be born. The literature formalizes this ideal as asking for a preference relation on the space of infinite utility streams that is complete, transitive, invariant to finite...

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Implementation with interdependent valuations

Postlewaite, Andrew; McLean, Richard - In: Theoretical Economics 10 (2015) 3, pp. 923-952

It is well-known that the ability of the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism to implement efficient outcomes for private value choice problems does not extend to interdependent value problems. When an agent's type affects other agents' utilities, it may not be incentive compatible for him to...

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Nudging als politisches Instrument: Gute Absicht oder staatlicher Übergriff?

Bruttel, Lisa V.; Stolley, Florian; Güth, Werner; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 11, pp. 767-791

Die Verhaltensökonomie und ihre praktischen Implikationen geraten immer stärker in den Fokus auch der deutschen Politik. Individuelle Entscheidungen sollen im Sinne eines "libertären Paternalismus" sanft beeinflusst werden. Die 'Nudges' bestehen in Standardvorgaben, Selbstbindungen und der...

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Unions' bargaining coordination in multinational enterprises

Buccella, Domenico - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 4, pp. 373-392

This paper investigates the patterns of bargaining in multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the presence of labor unions coordination activities. It derives the bargaining regimes which arise as sub-game perfect equilibria, and considers both simultaneous and sequential games where parties choose...

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Gender Differences in Life Satisfaction and Social Participation

Humpert, Stephan - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 123-142

The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...

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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics

Biewen, Martin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most countries, only a portion of people who are currently poor are persistently poor. People who are persistently poor or who cycle into and out of poverty should be the main focus of...

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Zwischen Ökonomisierungsangst und Wachstumseuphorie: zur Governance der Arbeit im Pflegesektor

Evans, Michaela; Thiele, Günter; Ziegler, Kai; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 83 (2014) 4, pp. 123-136

Diskurse zur Zukunft der Arbeit im Pflegesektor zeichnen derzeit ein widersprüchliches Bild. Einerseits werden Wachstums- und Beschäftigungsperspektiven betont, andererseits wächst die Sorge um eine weitere Ökonomisierung und Prekarisierung von Pflegearbeit. Der vorliegende Beitrag...

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