’ incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual’s rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of … is also affected by comparisons over time: those who received higher income offers or enjoyed higher income rank in the … past exert lower levels of effort for a given current income and rank. …

international treaties regarding the principles of equality and non-discrimination. The paper, thus examines the proposition that … human rights norms regarding the principles of equality, non-discrimination and women’s rights. …

social inequalities and to make recommendations for the development of a unified Commission for Equality and Human Rights …. This paper was originally written for the Review. It canvasses possible responses to the questions, ‘equality between whom …?’ and ‘equality of what?’. It argues that equality of outcome is intuitively appealing but risks ignoring variations in need …

In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The … Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of gender, ethnicity … Minister established the Equalities Review, an independent, high-level, investigation of the causes of persistent inequality …

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …