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On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks
Millner, Antony - CESifo - 2013
that the welfare functions traditionally used in climate economics are ill-equipped to deal with climate catastrophes in … which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with … normatively desirable properties, which has the effect of dampening the contribution of catastrophes to welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010703424
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Who's afraid of aggregating money metrics?
Bosmans, Kristof; Decancq, Koen; Ooghe, Erwin - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 13 (2018) 2, pp. 467-484
-to-poorer transfers that preserve the overall efficiency of the distribution. This transfer principle - together with the basic axioms of … anonymity, continuity, monotonicity, and a version of welfarism - characterizes a standard social welfare function defined over …
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Estimating the benefits of linking ties in a deeply divided society: considering the relationship between domestic workers and their employers in South Africa
Burger, Ronelle; Coetzee, Marisa; Watt, Carina van der - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2013
In South Africa social exclusion remains a problem due to the multiple and overlapping divisions in post-apartheid society and the lack of linking ties bridging the worlds of those who have plenty and those without. To quantify the potential benefit of such linking ties for socio-economic...
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Social Divergence and Productivity: Making a Connection
Grafton, R. Quentin; Knowles, Stephen; Owen, P. Dorian - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Quentin Grafton, Stephen Knowles and Dorian Owen examine the implications for productivity arising from the level of social diversity along a variety of dimensions, including ethnic, linguistic and religious differences and inequalities between rich and poor. Their basic...
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Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance
Heufer, Jan; Shachat, Jason M.; Xu, Yan - 2018
We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of … whether the wealth distribution choice exhibits equity or efficiency preferring tastes. We report experiments using a within …-subject design testing the veracity of this instrument. We find clusters of equity preferring, efficiency preferring, and socially …
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Fairness and Freight-Handlers : Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm
Verhoogen, Eric A.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Burks, Stephen V. - 2021
This paper draws on evidence from an internal attitude survey in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. The key element of our research design is that local managers have no...
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Mind the Gap! - Ordonomische Überlegungen zur Sozialstruktur und Semantik moderner Governance
Pies, Ingo; Beckmann, Markus; Hielscher, Stefan - 2007
uses the ordonomic framework to critically reflect common notions of normative categories such as justice, solidarity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733747
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Sozialstruktur und Semantik - Ordonomik als Forschungsprogramm in der modernen (Welt-)Gesellschaft
Pies, Ingo; Beckmann, Markus; Hielscher, Stefan - 2009
normative categories such as justice, solidarity, responsibility, sustainability, and corporate citizenship. Based on this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733772
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Don’t tax me? : Determinants of individual attitudes toward progressive taxation
Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja - 2010
This contribution empirically analyses the individual determinants of tax rate preferences. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward progressive, proportional, and regressive taxation. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951035
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Die dunkle Seite der Gerechtigkeit
Dilger, Alexander - 2011
In diesem Beitrag geht es um subjektive Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen, nicht Gerechtigkeit an sich, da erstere im Gegensatz zu letzterer empirisch feststellbar und handlungswirksam sind. Allerdings müssen ihre Folgen nicht nur gute sein. Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen können erstens die...
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