Arbeitspapier

The struggle between equity and efficiency: do Nordic countries have a free lunch?

Although there is a vast theoretical literature on the existence of a tradeoff between equity and efficiency, empirical investigations often fail to find evidence for this proposition. Furthermore there are hints that some social models in Europe can cope better with this trade-off and are actually able to provide what economists call a free lunch. In this paper we use data from the Luxembourg Income Studies (LIS) to evaluate (a) whether there really exists something like a free lunch and (b) whether some social systems are actually better in coping with the trade-off between equity and efficiency.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; No. 103

Classification
Wirtschaft
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Subject
equity
efficiency
tradeoff
welfare states

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Berthold, Norbert
Brunner, Alexander
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbes. Wirtschaftsordnung und Sozialpolitik
(where)
Würzburg
(when)
2008

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Berthold, Norbert
  • Brunner, Alexander
  • Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbes. Wirtschaftsordnung und Sozialpolitik

Time of origin

  • 2008

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