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On Efficiency, Concentration and Welfare [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
The welfare impact of a merger involves the market power offense and the efficiency defense. Salant et al. (1983) show that mergers among symmetric firms are unprofitable except for monopolization. We characterize the limit to this merger paradox in a simple linear Cournot oligopoly with asymmetric costs.
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The Labor Supply Effects of Welfare Reform [PDF]

Will welfare reform increase unemployment and reduce wages? The answer depends in part on how much welfare reform increases labor supply. This paper considers the labor supply effects of the welfare reforms that have occurred since 1993, when President ...
Timothy J. Bartik
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Improving donkey welfare in Ethiopia: Using a sustainable scalable integrated community-based approach

CABI One Health
Background and study aims: In Ethiopia, the country with the world’s largest population of donkeys, how can people and donkeys live well together within thriving communities and a healthy environment? When human-animal relationships are often constrained
Bojia E. Duguma, Sally J. Price, Stephen Blakeway   +2 more
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MULTIDIMENSIONAL INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL WELFARE [PDF]

This paper provides a cardinal welfare measure for the allocation of a bundle of goods among a group of people. Social welfare is measured as the sum of n partial indices, one for each good, each of which consists of a function of the amount of the good ...
Antonio Villar Notario
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"The Consolidated Assistance Program, Reforming Welfare by Synchronizing Public Assistance Benefits" [PDF]

Levin-Waldman examines the structure of existing welfare programs and concludes that the current array of benefits could be synchronized and consolidated to create a new system that would provide economic incentives to work.
Oren M. Levin-Waldman
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One Biology and the Status of Humans

Animals
Biology overlaps for humans and non-humans; so, there is only one biology and humans are animals. All human biological functions can also be found, to some degree, in other animal species.
Donald M. Broom
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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform. [PDF]

The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account ...
Orszag, Jonathan Michael, Snower, Dennis J.   +1 more
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The canine welfare, public health and environmental impact of systemic under-regulation within the UK puppy trade: A scoping review

Animal Welfare
Almost a decade has passed since a DEFRA consultation concluded that existing legislation governing the UK puppy trade was “outdated, inflexible, incompatible with current welfare legislation and cumbersome for both enforcers and businesses”.
Katharine Eloise Ross, Kirsten M. McMillan, Verity Bowell, Dylan Neil Clements, Stella Mazeri   +4 more
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Are the welfare losses from imperfect targeting important? [PDF]

The authors evaluate the size of the welfare losses from using alternative “imperfect” welfare indicators as substitutes for the conventionally preferred consumption indicator.
Coady, David P., Skoufias, Emmanuel
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Mixed duopoly, privatization and the shadow costs of public funds [PDF]

, 2006
The purpose of this article is to investigate how the introduction of the shadow cost of public funds in the utilitarian measure of the economywide welfare affects the behavior of a welfare maximizer public firm in a mixed duopoly.
Capuano, Carlo, De Feo, Giuseppe
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