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claims. In this context, we investigate procedural and end-state principles of fairness, their implications and relations. To …, exchange rule. Using variants of fairness based on no-envy as end-state principles, we provide axiomatic characterizations of …
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Forgiveness is an ethical ideal that advocates that a fresh start should be conferred on those individuals who regret their past choices. Grounded on such a principle, Fleurbaey (2005) proposes the use of the equivalent endowment as the proper measure of the welfare loss experienced by those who...
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This paper proposes a regional comparison of ex-post inequality of opportunity in France by measuring, within each region, the inequality between individuals exerting the same effort. According to the concept of equality of opportunity, inequalities due to factors for which the individual is not...
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on the fairness of the agreement. With this in mind, the firms can utilize transfer payments with the aim to achieve a … should jointly plan operations as to deal with the trade-off between the efficiency and the fairness. We propose a novel … to benefit less from the collaboration. When comparing the quality of such approach with other notions of fairness, we …
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Behavioral economics has shaken the view that individuals have well-defined, consistent and stable preferences. This raises a challenge for welfare economics, which takes as a key postulate that individual preferences should be respected. We agree with Bernheim (2009) and Bernheim and Rangel...
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incentive-compatibility constraints, on the basis of efficiency and fairness principles. The fairness principles we consider …
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both fairness and forgiveness. Based on the idea of fresh starts, we construct a social ordering that permits us to make … rule also allows for the inclusion of the fairness approach in the model, to deal with the well-known clash between the …
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A set of agents with possibly different waiting costs have to receive the same service one after the other. Efficiency requires to maximize total welfare. Equity requires to at least treat equal agents equally. One must form a queue, set up monetary transfers to compensate agents having to wait,...
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fairness criterion, but only in the unreasonable case in which none of the unemployed are ever willing to work. …
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