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In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
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Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject …
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Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality … of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare …
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assume agents have preferences for equity and efficiency as well as their own material payoffs. Empirical failure of the … that have higher efficiency and greater equity …
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Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality … of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare …
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This paper draws on evidence from an internal attitude survey in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. The key element of our research design is that local managers have no...
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In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...
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An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …
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