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The Demand for Job Protection. Some Clues from Behavioural Economics

D'Orlando, Fabio; Ferrante, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2008

Radical differences in labour market regulations among countries that in other institutional respects are quite similar are still surprisingly frequent. Nonetheless, traditional theoretical analysis meets enormous difficulties in explaining these differences. The scope of our paper is to show...

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Life satisfaction in a survey of Italian households

Malgarini, Marco; Pugno, Maurizio; Zezza, Gennaro - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2009

This paper explores life satisfaction in Italy by using the ISAE survey on Italian households’ budget, which has been extended to the specific question on this aspect in the May 2008 wave. Our main new contributions to the existing literature regard the role of the characterisation of the...

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The Brazilian Economy after Lula: What to Expect?

Vernengo, Matias - In: CESifo Forum 12 (2011) 1, pp. 17-22

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Networks and Anti-Poverty Programs: The NREG Experience

Shankar, Shylashri; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Governments struggle with the reality that the beneficiaries of anti-poverty programs are powerless to influence policies and stem the possibility of capture of benefits by the nonpoor. Networks – social and political – are supposed to increase the ability of the lesspowerful to access their...

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Body Mass Index, Participation, Duration of Work and Earnings under NREGS: Evidence from Rajasthan

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Despite its evident importance relatively little is known about links between Body Mass Index (BMI) and participation in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009-10, this paper attempts to fill this void and examines the...

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Returns from income strategies in rural Poland

Fałkowski, Jan; Jakubowski, Maciej; Strawiński, Paweł - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2011

In Poland, rural households are encouraged to diversify their activities both in and outside the agricultural sector in order to stabilize and improve their income. However, relatively few households appear to do this. This paper addresses this issue, investigating the returns from the income...

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Redistributional Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program

Bin, Okmyung; Bishop, John A.; Kousky, Carolyn - 2011

This study examines the redistributional effects of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) using a national database of premium, coverage, and claim payments at the county level between 1980 and 2006. Measuring progressivity as the departure from per capita county income proportionality we...

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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Research Programme in Political Economy (RPPE), … - 2004

International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate...

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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract

Benabou, Roland - Research Programme in Political Economy (RPPE), … - 2004

with different social contracts. Finally, I ask what joint configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive … "exporting" of inequality across borders; and how this, in turn, generates spillovers between social contracts that make it more …

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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany

Kuhn, Andreas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between …. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions … same inequality perceptions and distributional norms. …

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