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A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
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. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize …
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Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
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In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
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reporting, the EU-SILC data are of great international significance for comparative EU-wide measurement, description, and …
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, the implicit assumption was full responsibility for the partner's income, effort and circumstance variables. In this paper …Existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has failed to address the question as to how the circumstances …, we discuss whether or not the partner's characteristics should be treated as responsibility factors. Using German micro …
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.Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how circumstances beyond the sphere of individual control explain inequality …
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the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new …
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on affordability measure has little overlap with the existing literature on poverty measurement. A comprehensive …
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