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People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864650
measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two idely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by developing a new …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries …
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measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290363
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484012
measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236841