In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis -à-vis different kinds of non-cooperative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue of the feasibility of corporatism, i.e., whether and under what conditions it is in the interest of bot...

Price regulation is important in telecommunication service to achieve economic efficiency and social welfare. Among different approaches, price-cap regulation is most widely accepted. Details of price-cap regulation are discussed in this article. In interconnection market, typical issues like unbundled charges, universal service and ADC charges, price squeezing, and fixed-to-mobile call charges...

This study explores the equilibrium outcomes in the contexts of quantity-setting and price-setting mixed duopolies with consistent conjectures of both the social welfare maximizing public firm and the relative profit maximizing private firm. Similar to the private duopoly composed of only relative profit maximizing firms, we show that in the mixed duopoly, the equilibrium outcomes in the quanti...

This paper shows that ``strict'' ®nancial break-even for airports may not be socially desirable. To maximize social welfare, airports should be allowed to take losses or make pro®ts at di€erent times while achieving break-even only in the long run. In particular, with economies growing over time, socially optimal pricing for a new airport can involve de®cit in its early years and surplus in its...

This research examines the hypothesis that religiosity has two competing psychological influences on the social welfare attitudes of contemporary Americans. On the one hand, religiosity promotes a culturally based conservative identity, which in turn promotes opposition to federal social welfare provision. On the other hand, religiosity promotes a prosocial value orientation, which in turn prom...

Although high-income countries share and value the goal of protecting children from harm, national data on child maltreatment and the involvement of social services, the judiciary and health services remain relatively scarce. To explore potential reasons for this, a number of high-income countries across the world (Belgium, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland...

1. Pediatrician, pioneer of Neurorehabilitation with Neuroscience Approach, Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2.Occupational Therapist, Clinical Researcher, Occupational Therapy Dept., University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinical Sciences D...

Arrow’s theorem implies that a social welfare function satisfying Transitivity, the Weak Pareto Principle (Unanimity) and Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA) must be dictatorial. When non-strict preferences are also allowed, a dictatorial social welfare function is defined as a function for which there exists a single voter whose strict preferences are followed. This definition allows...

O some kinds of inequality are ethically objectionable. The distinction between morally acceptable and unacceptable inequal ity is perhaps the most important contribution of philosophical egalitarian thought during the last forty years. In particular, more information than the welfare derived from final outcomes is needed to render social judgment about the degree of inequality. One must also k...

Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000 Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000...