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Equity of Health Care Financing: An Application to Iran
Moradi, Alireza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyzes inequality in Iran's health system from a financing perspective. Through grouped data of household budget published by Iran Statistic Center (ISC) and Beta Lorenz curve introduced in Kakwani (1980), it has been tried to extract Beta Lorenz curve and Kakwani progressivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322631
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Equity in an educational boom: Lessons from the expansion and marketization of tertiary schooling in Poland
Herbst, Mikolaj; Rok, Jakub - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The transformation of Polish economy toward a free market system and related changes on the Polish labour market released the demand for higher education, held for decades at an artificially low level. The impressive increase in enrolment was possible because the Polish government allowed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323936
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Dynamic Measures of Individual Deprivation
BOSSERT, Walter; D’AMBROSIO, Conchita - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2005
We introduce and axiomatize a one-parameter class of individual deprivation measures. Motivated by a suggestion of Runciman, we modify Yitzhaki’s index by multiplying it by a function that is interpreted as measuring the part of deprivation generated by an agent’s observation that others in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671557
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Inequality averse criteria for evaluating infinite utility streams: The impossibility of Weak Pareto
Alcantud, José Carlos R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
prove that the Hammond Equity postulate and other variations of it like the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle are incompatible … with positive responsiveness to welfare improvements by every generation. The case of Hammond Equity for the Future is …
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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams
Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings.  We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve.  Team members find it painful to receive less than their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275434
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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity
Son, Hyun H. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011
Measuring the equity of opportunity in a given society is an essential ingredient in the formulation of policies and … programs that promote inclusive growth. In this paper, equity of opportunity is defined and measured through the theoretical …, respectively. The concepts of relative and absolute measures of equity of opportunity are then introduced and a social opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291917
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Modified Ramsey Discounting for Climate Change
Tol, Richard S.J. - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2013
modified Ramsey rule is simpler and identical to regional equity weights. I apply the modified Ramsey rules to estimates of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692894
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Desigualdad, justicia y poder en América Latina
Porras, Tirso Porras - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2005)
El trabajo pretende establecer la multidimensionalidad de causas y consecuenciasde la desigualdad, con el propósito de comprender su proyección normativa en loscampos de la justicia y el bienestar, en orden a vincular el mercado cuando trata deser justificado en sus principios y resultados.Una...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763380
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Justice under uncertainty
Riedl A.M.; Cettolin E. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although,...
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Consistent comparisons of attainment and shortfall inequality: A critical examination
Bosmans K.G.M. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
An inequality measure is consistent if it ranks distributions the same irrespective of whether health quantities are represented in terms of attainment or shortfalls. This consistency property severely restricts the set of admissible inequality measures. We show that, within a more general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734868