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This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition …-industry wage differentials. In Eastern Europe, where economic growth has restarted, there have been further increases in income … distribution of wages with increased wage premia to education, to growing sectors and geographically advantaged regions in the …
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in the variance of wages within sectors. That is, earnings inequality within both the private and public sectors grew …
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This paper develops a framework for studying individuals' ideas about what constitutes just compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master of Business...
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Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is not as straightforward as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice...
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Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities which are unfair and should be compensated....
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In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity …
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countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and … is positively correlated with overall income inequality, and negatively with measures of intergenerational mobility, both … ; income inequality ; social mobility ; mobility …
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Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … suggestive but not robust: while overall income inequality is generally negatively associated with growth in the household survey …
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Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert...
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The theoretical literature on inequality of opportunity formulates basic properties that measures of inequality of opportunity should have. Standard methods for the measurement of inequality of opportunity require the construction of counterfactual outcome distributions through statistical...
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