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-productivity workers, leading to an increase in welfare inequality. We show that the very popular idea that a more funded system would … ineluctably lead to more inequalities in well-being can be justified only by focusing on the inequality of positions in case of …
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We model the interaction between an employer and a worker with interdependent preferences in a simple one-shot production process. In particular, we assume that the worker becomes kinder if she senses that her employer is an altruist. We assume that intentions are private information. Thus, the...
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social factors such as communication. This complements the literature that argues that altruistic behavior is instrumental in … serving other selfish (or non-purely altruistic) ends such as self-reputation or social approval. This experiment contributes …
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evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive … working conditions causes workers to quit at more similar times. When, and only when, communication is allowed, workers are …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may...
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-run prevalence of family altruism in the population. That evolutionary effect questions the desirability of the LTC public provision … altruistic and non-altruistic agents, and where the transmission of (non) altruism takes place through a socialization process à …
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degree of short-term impatience, and the degrees of family and non family altruism. Short-term impatience and non family … altruism are found no to affect wealth but, contrarily to recent results of behavioural analysis, the three other parameters … with the degree of family altruism (wealth intended for bequests). The way preferences are measured allows to get rid of …
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Natural disasters trigger large inequalities between affected households and the rest of the community. The extent to which villages compensate for these shocks allegedly depends on the pressure imposed by the group of needy families. I model two major threats to redistribution - (i) the...
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While there is a large empirical literature on the intergenerational transmission of health and survival outcomes in relation to lifestyles, little theoretical work exists on the long-run prevalence of (un)healthy lifestyles induced by mortality patterns. To examine that issue, this paper...
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First, we present what is called the Theory of Psychological Preferences (altruism, rational reciprocity...) through … collective impact of altruism, social loyalty, intrinsic reciprocity and so forth . …
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