Similar Search Results

Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Jasso, Guillermina - 2021

When a society overthrows a ruler - call the ruler Caesar - what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value ordinal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324822

(In)Equality and (In)Justice

Jasso, Guillermina - 2016

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985278

Studying Justice : Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward

Jasso, Guillermina - 2007

This paper describes procedures for measuring and estimating the fundamental quantities in the study of distributive justice. We examine a variety of methods for measuring the actual reward and the just reward, for both self and other, including direct and indirect methods for measuring the just...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777511

Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond

Jasso, Guillermina - 2021

The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification - unification of different theories of the same field of phenomena and unification of theories of different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317201

Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control : Theory and Evidence

Ooghe, Erwin - 2010

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their … misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. Such fairness considerations have been introduced in … based on much more information. We introduce fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134816

Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?

Duncan, Denvil - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099109

Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861085

Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia During 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

Measuring the intergenerational mobility of welfare provides key inputs for policies, but very few studies examine intergenerational mobility of subjective well-being (SWB), particularly in a poorer, transitional country context. We make new contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083729

Beer, Wood, and Welfare

Grimm, Michael - 2014

Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these, mostly female owned, small enterprises and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039584

Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic : Comparing Alternative Value Frameworks

Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Bloom, David E. - 2021

redistribution mechanisms compared with benefit-cost analysis. The concern for the worse-off implies that prioritarianism is more …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240286