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volume of income inequality. We present general methods for deriving ethical inequality indexes from social …
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This paper seeks to evaluate the findings of cross-national research on the relationship between income inequality and …
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Skill differentials in wages declined in the 1970's and rose in the 1980's, but aggregate wage inequality grew …
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voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …
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It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we …
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Frequent violations of fair principles in real-life settings raise the fundamental question of whether such principles can guarantee the existence of a self-enforcing equilibrium in a free economy. We show that elementary principles of distributive justice guarantee that a pure-strategy Nash...
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with the conventional measures of income inequality, which were not high in that region. The aim of this paper is to …, educational level and income status. Overall and country specific results are provided …
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taxation and redistribution, and guaranteeing a basic income to unproductive agents. Our analysis uncovers a new class of …
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the health of hypothetical individuals distinguished by randomly generated resource productivity as well as sex, income … and smoking (41,460 observations). We elicit beliefs about responsibility for income and smoking, and use their … raises the weight on the poor, who are health-disadvantaged. As beliefs about responsibility for income and smoking …
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