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redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to impact individual preferences in the literature, we take the … egoistic motives for redistribution seriously and focus on the role played by the occupational status of individuals in shaping … be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. Finally, (iii) we highlight differences between European …
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redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to affect individual preferences in the literature, the egoistic … motives for redistribution are taken seriously and this article focuses on the role played by the occupational status of … presented here identifies which socio-political groups may be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. …
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redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually found to impact individual preferences in the literature, we take the … egoistic motives for redistribution seriously and focus on the role played by the occupational status of individuals in shaping … be formed on the basis of their preferences for redistribution. Finally, (iii) we highlight differences between European …
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paramount in our understanding of Europe's demographic transition. …
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distribution of risks inside society, the Liberal system wins if the inequality of income is low, and the Beveridgean system wins … if the inequality of income is high. Using a utilitarian criterion, the Beveridgean system always dominates and the …
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Financial transfers from parents to their adult children are a growing trend in contemporary societies, and this study investigates the relation of those transfers to their beneficiaries' health in France. In the 2005 nationally representative Gender and Generation Survey, nearly 6% of the...
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How fluid are African societies? This paper uses wide-sample nationally representative surveys to set down the first comparative measurement of the extent and features of the social mobility of men in five countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Intergenerational as well as intra-generational mobility...
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One of the explanations of the social mobility's growth in industrial countries from Europe and North America since the …
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We propose a dynastic model in which individuals are born in an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the role of social networks on the correlation in the parent-child educational status independent of any parent-child interaction. We show that the...
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for redistribution are influenced by individual beliefs on the origins of social inequality and public values. The first …This article studies the formation of preferences regarding redistribution. Its aim is to demonstrate how preferences … section shows, through a microeconomic model, how preferences on redistribution can be understood as the outcome of “normative …
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