fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

results are largely supported in considerations of cross-section versus pooled data, simultaneity issues, and the measurement …

voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual …

the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market … processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. We find that the impact of … ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that …

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …