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Intertemporal evaluation criteria for climate change policy: the basic ethical issues
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the 'appropriate' discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018228
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How can pure social discounting be ethically justified?
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental economics. Since the publication of the Stern Review in 2006 the debate about the appropriate discounting of future welfare and utility levels was revived and the most renowned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957602
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536037
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‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife
Dasgupta, Indraneel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and ‘ethnic’ conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233836
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A two-dimensional measure of polarization:
Mogues, Tewodaj - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"The link between economic distribution and social conflict—and the notion that this link arises from individuals … discussing a measure of polarization that allows analysis of the distribution of society along two dimensions—an economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038069