statistical tests for fairness within well-defined income distribution generating processes and a well specified notion of … fairness. We find that the likelihood ratio (LR) test for fairness versus unfairness within two such processes are proportional … their values differently – to compare them to critical values for a test of the null hypothesis of fairness, or to use them …

lines of race and education. -- Distributive Justice ; Governmental Redistribution ; Fairness …

persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; fairness ; redistribution ; wage inequality …

In this paper we address the issue of the role of ideology and political preferences of publically engaged economists … of economist petitions, which we identify as one channel for economists to exert public influence. We base our analysis … petitions and economists based on the social structure of petition networks. …

inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature. These …

firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. The key element of … the rate of unemployment and the wages of similar workers in the outside market and the wage-fairness perceptions of … and fairness perceptions to changes in employee performance, as measured by the rate of disciplinary dismissals. We find …