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Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions.We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...
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This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...
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We study all theories of justice that disentangle ethical views on intergenerational discounting and intergenerational … inequality. Each “modular” social welfare function is uniquely identified by a time-discounting function—capturing attitudes … properties and establishes the limits of disentangling discounting and inequality. Our theories include as special cases the most …
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Applied welfare analyses of redistributive systems nowadays benefit from powerful tax benefit microsimulation programs combined with administrative data. Arguably, most of the distributional studies of that kind focus on social welfare defined as a function - typically inequality or poverty...
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