fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences …. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences …, although during the last two decades, the use of lab experiments has accelerated. Nonetheless, there remains considerable …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …

Previous estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) are lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set …, is important for the acceptance of (some) inequality and the design of redistributive policies as underestimating the … differences in social mobility and persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; earnings inequality ; mobility ; circumstances …