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the top of that distribution. It is shown that the economy switches from a Victorian to an SATC equilibrium as inequality …
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We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these … implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and suggests several new possibilities to measure inequality of opportunity …. The approaches are illustrated with a selective survey of the empirical literature on income inequality of opportunity. …
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If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined …
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more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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and high-school graduates, ii) the rise in the college-premium, iii) the rise in within wage inequality iv) the … differential behavior of the between and within wage inequality in the 60s and 70s and, v) the decline of the wage at the first …
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are shown to produce different wage distributions and wage inequality. These models are useful to evaluate the general … production function of worker-task pairs lead to rising wage inequality. …
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This paper proposes an assignment model where sorting occurs on attributes including both skills (Sattinger, 1979) and preferences (Tinbergen, 1956). The key feature of this model is that the wage function admits both jobs' and workers' attributes as arguments. Since this function is generically...
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Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence …
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