caa a22 4500 475739612 CHVBK 20180406123456.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s100580000027 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s100580000027 Altruism, redistribution and social insurance [Elektronische Daten] [Udo Ebert, Oskar von dem Hagen] Abstract.: The paper examines the influence of altruism on voluntary transfers and government redistribution in a simple model: two jobs of different productivity are assigned by chance to two individuals. Ex ante the individuals are identical, ex post they have different incomes. The first part of the paper examines voluntary transfers determined ex post or agreed upon ex ante in the absence of altruism. In the second part, the influence of altruism is examined. Altruism is modelled as a pure public good: the minimum consumption (or income, since there is only one consumption good). Both individuals can contribute to its provision, one person by earning wage income, the other by voluntary transfers. The ex ante solutions generally lead to higher expected welfare but create several incentive problems. Only lump-sum transfers are considered. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 JEL classification: D64, H41, H21 nationallicence Key words: Altruism, redistributive taxation, social insurance, public good, voluntary transfers nationallicence Ebert Udo Department of Economics, University of Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany (e-mail: ebert@uni-oldenburg.de; vdhagen@uni-oldenburg.de), DE aut von dem Hagen Oskar Department of Economics, University of Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany (e-mail: ebert@uni-oldenburg.de; vdhagen@uni-oldenburg.de), DE aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s100580000027 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s100580000027 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ebert Udo Department of Economics, University of Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany (e-mail: ebert@uni-oldenburg.de; vdhagen@uni-oldenburg.de), DE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- von dem Hagen Oskar Department of Economics, University of Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany (e-mail: ebert@uni-oldenburg.de; vdhagen@uni-oldenburg.de), DE aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer