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Redistribution and individual characteristics

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  • IÓigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe

    (Departamento de Fundamentos del AnÂlisis EconÕmico, Universidad de Alicante, E-03071 Alicante, Spain)

Abstract

I study a model where personal income is a function of two different groups of individual characteristics, called "talent" and "effort" respectively. The distinction between these two groups is that society has taken the prior decision that the influence of traits from the first group needs to be moderated by any fair redistribution mechanism while differences in income due to traits from the second group must be preserved. I present two solutions that satisfy several intuitive properties of fairness and I use these properties to characterize both of them.

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  • IÓigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe, 1997. "Redistribution and individual characteristics," Review of Economic Design, Springer;Society for Economic Design, vol. 3(1), pages 45-55.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:reecde:v:3:y:1997:i:1:p:45-55
    Note: Received: 29 October 1995 / Accepted: 6 January 1997
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    9. Alexander Cappelen & Bertil Tungodden, 2011. "Distributive interdependencies in liberal egalitarianism," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 36(1), pages 35-47, January.
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    Keywords

    Redistribution mechanisms; compensation; effort; talent;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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