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Responsibility, talent, and compensation: A second-best analysis

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This paper examines how the first-best models of compensation based on the agents' talents and responsibilities analyzed in some recent contributions can be extended to a second-best context. A few social criteria are proposed and compared to alternative approaches by Roemer and Van de gaer.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK (e-mail: lezwb@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk) , , , , , , GB

    Walter Bossert

  2. THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 33 Bd du Port, F-95011 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France (e-mail: fleur@u-cergy.fr) , , , , , , FR

    Marc Fleurbaey

  3. Department of Economics, NUI–University of Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland (e-mail: dvandegaer@may.ei) , , , , , , IE

    Dirk Van de gaer

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Received: 5 March 1997 / Accepted: 19 August 1998

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Bossert, W., Fleurbaey, M. & Van de gaer, D. Responsibility, talent, and compensation: A second-best analysis. Rev Econ Design 4, 35–55 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100580050025

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