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It is well understood that political participation is stratified by socio-economic characteristics. Yet it is an open … developed by an expanding empirical literature on EOp we investigate to what extent political participation is determined by …, we find that a lack of political opportunity is particularly pronounced for contacts with officials, participation in …
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While it is well documented that political participation is stratified by socio-economic characteristics, it is an open … what extent differential political participation is determined by factors that lie beyond individual control (circumstances … forms of participation and persist over time. Family characteristics and psychological conditions during childhood emanate …
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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. Effective political participation requires a certain amount of financial, social and intellectual resources to, for example … political efficacy, resulting in less political participation. Consequently, the established parties propose a tax rate which is …
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
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Fairness considerations are important determinants of behavior in unstructured bargaining situations with equal bargaining power. If the surplus over which the bargaining takes place was created by separate, individual efforts, several entitlementrelated fairness ideals might be relevant. In our...
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The rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant and useful, the multidimensional poverty index is in...
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In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from a life satisfaction question included in the Gallup World Poll in almost all countries in the world. We argue that inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for...
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Using an online survey of Australian residents, we elicit the potential impacts of COVID-19 related labour market shocks on a validated measure of financial wellbeing. Experiencing a reduction in hours and earnings, entering into unemployment or having to file for unemployment benefits during...
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This study compares the evolution of income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Australia (2001–2006) and in Great Britain (1999–2004) by exploring patterns of morbidity- and mortality-related health changes across income groups. Using Australian longitudinal data, the change in health...
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