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A Quantitative Method for Benchmarking Fair Income Distribution

Sitthiyot, Thitithep; Holasut, Kanyarat - 2022

Concern about income inequality has become prominent in public discourse around the world. However, studies in behavioral economics and psychology have consistently shown that people prefer not equal but fair income distributions. Thus, finding a benchmark that could be used to measure fair...

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Welfare effects of polarization : occupational mobility over the life-cycle

Kikuchi, Shinnosuke; Kitao, Sagiri - 2020

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Disclosure as Distribution

Sheff, Jeremy N. - 2013

This brief Response to the work of Professors Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl Schneider on mandated disclosure regimes investigates the normative criteria underlying their claim that those regimes are failures. Specifically, it unpacks the pieces of those authors' implicit cost-benefit analysis,...

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Unintended effects of transparency : the consequences of income disclosure by politicians

Neisser, Carina; Wehrhöfer, Nils - 2025

Public disclosure laws on politicians' outside income aim to enhance electoral accountability, but their effects remain unclear and may backfire. Using a German disclosure reform, administrative tax data, and a difference-in-difference design, we show that MPs increased their outside income...

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Disclosure of Corporate Risk from Socio-Economic Inequality

Cort, Todd; Park, Stephen; Nascimento, Decio - 2022

Growing socio-economic inequality poses one of the greatest challenges to society, thereby raising new questions about the responsibility of corporations to address its effects. Inequality also poses material risks on business performance, including inefficient production, reduced innovation,...

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

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Higher-degree Stochastic Dominance Orders : Equivalence of Two Alternative Systems of Inequalities

Fang, Yi - 2019

The systems of inequalities for higher-degree stochastic dominance orders by Kallio and Hardoroudi (2018) are shown to be equivalent to the systems of inequalities by Fang (2014) and Fang and Post (2017), providing a validation of both sets of systems and existing empirical results based thereon

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International and domestic trading and wealth distribution

Düring, Bertram; Toscani, Giuseppe - 2008

and one of the authors in [13] and borrows ideas from the kinetic theory of mixtures of rarefied gases. Wealth is …

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Inequality in energy consumption : statistical equilibrium or a question of accounting conventions?

Semieniuk, Gregor; Weber, Isabella - 2019

Mitigating climate change requires information about the inequality in energy consumption. Recent contributions (Banerjee and Yakovenko, 2010; Lawrence et al., 2013; Yakovenko, 2010, 2013) have studied energy inequality through the lens of maximum entropy. They claim a weighted international...

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The Misuse of Top 1 Percent Income Shares as a Measure of Inequality

Reynolds, Alan - 2013

This paper confirms recent studies which find little or no sustained increase in the inequality of disposable income for the U.S. population as a whole over the past 20 years, even though estimates of the top 1 percent’s share of pretax, pretransfer (market) income spiked upward in 1986-88,...

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