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that ad-blocking leads to more effort being exerted and increases social welfare by reducing inefficient searching …
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The term of animal welfare was chosen to describe the animal life quality. It is derived from the English language … Animal Welfare, issued by the World Society for Animals Protection, defines welfare as: Degree in which the animal physical … welfare and protection, including farm animals. There are seven measures to ensure the minimum standards concerning animal …
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, regional policy, optimal agglomeration, welfare …
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We measure country welfare by an index number calculated from welfare components like GDP per capita and expected … length of life. We rank countries from high to low welfare using such estimated welfare indices. In such calculation the … chosen welfare components, the procedures used to normalize them, and the weight structure are important. Changing the …
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Lately it speaks a lot about ensuring animal welfare and about the influence of the environment on life and on animal …
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for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to … investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the determinants of welfare. Households have non-homothetic preferences … inequality by about 0.7 percentage points (measured by top 10 percent share). Average welfare increases by about 0.5 percent …
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whether there is wage or efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby affect welfare. If firms …. Importantly from a normative vantage point, such CSR objectives make a welfare-enhancing role of trade unions more likely in the …
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investigated in a simple gift-exchange experiment, thereby testing the fair wage-fair process-effort hypothesis. Before principals …
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deductible or variable premiums (bonus-malus contract). In our experiment filing fraudulent claims is a dominant strategy for …
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This paper analyzes tax competition theory in an experimental setting. Economically trained students act as government and must select a labor and a capital tax rate to fund a public good, both in closed and open economy settings. Several results emerge: i) There is only weak evidence that...
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