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Where does the fairtrade money go? : how much consumers pay extra for fairtrade coffee and how this value is split along the value chain

Naegele, Helene Blanche - 2019

Fairtrade certification aims at transferring wealth from the consumer to the farmer; however, coffee passes through … estimates how much more consumers are paying for Fairtrade-certified coffee in US supermarkets and finds estimates around $1 per …-certified coffee, compared to conventional coffee. The coffee farmer receives about a fifth of the price premium paid by the consumer …

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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …

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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : Evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction ; a revised version

Schwarze, Johannes (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of social norms. We develop a theoretical frame-work which nests various social custom models. Using micro data for Germany and Great Britain, we find evidence for social custom...

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The preadult origins of post-materialism : a longitudinal sibling study

Kroh, Martin (contributor) - 2008

Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialistic values in Germany over two decades, this paper provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, we test the combined socialization and scarcity hypothesis...

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Self-perceived job insecurity and social context : are there different European cultures of anxiety?

Erlinghagen, Marcel (contributor) - 2007

Job insecurity causes far reaching negative outcomes. The fear of job loss damages the health of employees and reduces the productivity of firms. Thus, job insecurity should result in increasing social costs. Analyzing representative data from 17 European countries, this paper investigates self...

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Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design

Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2000

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...

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The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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