This paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional trust. Drawing on individual data from 82 countries around the world over the 1981-2021 period, it sheds light on the potential limitations of exploring the impact of the income...

We propose a new decomposition of the Gini coefficient inspired by the opportunity egalitarian paradigm. Under the assumption that income is function of circumstances out of individual control, effort and unobservable factors, we identify fair and unfair inequalities as components of the total...