Calendrier du 20 novembre 2018
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 20/11/2018 de 17:00 à 18:00
SCHNEIDER-STRAWCZYNSKI Sarah (PSE)
Refugee inflows and Political Preferences. Evidence from France
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 20/11/2018 de 14:45 à 16:15
Sciences Po, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume 75007 Paris, 1er étage, salle A 13
JARAVEL Xavier (LSE)
What are the Price Effects of Trade? Evidence from the U.S. and Implications for Quantitative Trade Models
écrit avec E. Sager
Du 20/11/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
The study of economic inequality is fundamentally concerned with differing entitlements over goods and services. Economists of inequality have neglected a different aspect of economic inequality discussed by social commentators at least since Rousseau: that it also implies that one person is entitled to command the labour of another person for their own consumption purposes. I call this inequality as entitlements over labour. I propose a measure called the service ratio, which calculates the extent to which the rich can afford to buy the labour of their compatriots. Unlike standard measures of economic inequality the service ratio is not welfarist, but instead has its normative basis in the economic relations between people. I estimate service ratios in a selection of countries over time, and illustrate the relationship between this measure and standard measures of inequality. Beyond its normative interpretation, I argue that inequality as entitlements over labour is salient in two dimensions. First, it is sociologically salient because the ability to employ domestic service is essential to conceptions of upper middle class lifestyles. Relatedly, it has also underpinned rising female labour market participation. Second, it is politically salient because the extent of domination through command over labour is a zero-sum game between the rich and the non-rich.
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 20/11/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
DELATTE Anne Laure (CNRS, University Paris Dauphine)
Private Credit Under Political Influence. Evidence from France.
écrit avec Adrien Matray (Princeton), Noémie Pinardon-Touati (HEC)