This article presents two arguments - one deontological and the other consequential - which, jointly and separately, aim to justify redistributive taxation and the resulting imposition of a greater tax burden on the wealthy. Both arguments are based on a community-oriented rather than an...

This article presents a model of the structure of the information flows that underlie the creation of production chains between thousands of small textile firms located in Prato, central Italy. Contrary to most textile industry of western Europe and north America, Prato did not die out once...

We study the regional distribution of primary care physicians in Germany to learn about the extent and possible reasons of geographic maldistribution. For this aim, we apply a greedy capacitated algorithm on very fine spatial data. We compare this reference allocation of primary care physicians...

An Analysis Based on the European Union Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) This study provides an in-depth evaluation of earnings differences within and across countries and their evolution over time using three different waves of the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) – for 2002, 2006 and...

This paper studies the stationary distribution of wealth by using a basic economic model encompassing saving, investment, occupational choice, an imperfect credit market, entrepreneurial abilities, and intergenerational wealth mobilities. It implies that persistent wealth inequality depends on...

There is an irreductible conflict between, on the one hand, the desire to allocate income in society in an equitable way and, on the other, the desire to alleviate poverty. The conflict materializes itself in the problem of designing a basic income (or negative income tax) system which requires...

The formation of the European Union (EU) is the one of the biggest political – economic events of the last 50 years. The aim of this study is to develop EU economy functioning system dynamic model. Main research method is system dynamics. General scheme of EU economy system dynamic model is...

Knowledge is treated as a fundamental cause of economic success. Up to now we have been lacking quantities which would allow knowledge to be taken into consideration in mathematical economic theories. In order to remedy this, knowledge functions are introduced here from which a whole series of...

En este artículo utilizamos un mecanismo de interacción social directa -en contraste con las interacciones a través del mercado-; para intentar explicar cómo las interacciones sociales afectan las decisiones sobre capital humano de los individuos y su posible impacto sobre la distribución...

We analyse structural changes in the Australian ports and rail freight industries during 1990s that were driven by microeconomic reform. We estimate the direct and indirect effects on household income groups of these industry changes by applying a computable general equilibrium model...