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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Hufe, Paul - 2018

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...

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Finance and Income Inequality : A Review and New Evidence

de Haan, Jakob - 2016

development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work … the impact of financial liberalization on inequality. Also the quality of political institutions conditions the impact of … financial liberalization on income inequality, in contrast to the quality of economic institutions. Our main findings are robust …

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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2015

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...

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