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Inequality indices as tests of fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
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 interpretation has been criticized for a long time on the...
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Social Capital, Social Contracts, and Public Policy in the United States
Tanimura, Steven - 2020
The underlying social framework in which we live seems to becoming less social. The connections we have between individuals, businesses, and government has become impersonal and distant. If this is a valid trend of society then our connection with our elected officials may be a lot less...
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Technological innovation and prize incentives : the Google Lunar X Prize and other aerospace competitions
Kay, Luciano - 2012
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The effect of performance-based incentives on educational achievement : evidence from a randomized experiment
Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Sadoff, Sally - 2016
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The economy of prestige : prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value
English, James F. - 2005
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Signaling status : the impact of relative income on household consumption and financial decisions
Bricker, Jesse; Ramcharan, Rodney; Krimmel, Jacob - 2014
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Showing off to the new neighbors? : income, socioeconomic status and consumption patterns of internal migrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Ksenia; … - 2013
This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new … neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing …. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …
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Trudovye resursy zarubežnych stran i Rossii : sovremennyj ėtap razvitija
Demčenko, Timofej A. - 2003
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Common ownership, competition, and top management incentives
Antón, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; … - 2017 - Last revised: 1 Nov 2017
We present a mechanism based on managerial incentives through which common ownershipaffects product market outcomes. Firm-level variation in common ownership causes varia-tion in managerial incentives and productivity across firms, which leads to intra-industryand intra-firm cross-market...
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The incentives for tax planning
Armstrong, Christopher; Blouin, Jennifer L.; Larcker, … - 2011 - Draft: March 8, 2011
We use a proprietary data set with detailed executive compensation information to examine the relationship between the incentives of the tax director and GAAP and cash effective tax rates, the book-tax gap, and measures of tax aggressiveness. We find that the incentive compensation of the tax...
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