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The economics of justice as fairness
Abatemarco, Antonio; Stroffolini, Francesca - 2017
In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this … identified a priori, and partial justice orderings derived accordingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840488
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Doing Rawls justice : evidence from the PSID
Abatemarco, Antonio - 2016
Distributive value judgments based on the 'origins' of economic inequalities (e.g. circumstances and responsible choices) are increasingly evoked to argue that 'the worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal'. However, one may reasonably agree that distributive value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522684
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A comparison of earnings justice throughout Europe : widespread approval in Germany for income distribution according to need and equity
Adriaans, Jule; Eisnecker, Philipp; Liebig, Stefan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 44/45, pp. 397-404
The present study compares the perceptions of fairness of national earned incomes between the populations of Germany and the rest of Europe based on recent data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The vast majority of European respondents consider very low gross earned incomes to be unjustly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122490
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Language rights : a welfare-economics approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015
Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309548
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236841
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172471
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When foul play seems fair : dishonesty as a response to violations of just deserts
Kline, Reuben; Galeotti, Fabio; Orsini, Raimondello - 2014
-nationally. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our results for theories of distributive justice and multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729119
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874411
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864650
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The economics of justice as fairness
Abatemarco, Antonio; Stroffolini, Francesca - 2018
In this paper, the authors challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that … this theory, as outlined in the restatement (Rawls, Justice as Fairness: a Restatement, 2001), goes well beyond the … potentially Rawls-optimal social contracts can be identified a priori, and partial justice orderings derived accordingly. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930444