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and has a substantial influence on inequality of opportunity country orderings. Growth regressions also illustrate the …Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the …
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measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel … has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016. Increases are driven by two distinct forces: (i) a less opportunity …
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measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel … has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016. Increases are driven by two distinct forces: (i) a less opportunity …
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Seit einiger Zeit mehren sich die Stimmen, die für Deutschland eine "soziale Schieflage" konstatieren und im Namen sozialer Gerechtigkeit Korrekturen fordern. So haben die Reallöhne in den vergangenen Jahren stagniert, teilweise sind sie sogar zurückgegangen. Zugleich kann eine Zunahme von...
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We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows …
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Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern … address this question. In particular, we examine whether attitudes to inequality differ between East and West even after the … inequality and other determinants of attitudes are taken into account. These results do not seem to be driven by a recent change …
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conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …
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This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...
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