Redistributing leisure and consumption
(2025)
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- Maniquet, François
- Abstract
- Humans are unequal. Democratic societies are organized to eliminate inequalities that do not benefit the general good. This thesis evaluates some consequences of these eliminations for welfare from leisure and consumption. Chapter 1 studies the introduction of a universal basic income when one wishes to eliminate inequalities due to productive abilities but not those spawned by tastes. Chapter 2 evaluates the first-ever government-mandated working time reduction in Belgium in 1910’s coal mines and shows that the taste for leisure must be large given the adverse effects on employment and wages consistent with monopsony power. Chapter 3 amends measures of standards of living if unequal budgets create welfare-relevant inequalities but heterogeneous preferences do not.
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Germain, A. (2025). Redistributing leisure and consumption. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/245832