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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...

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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...

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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. …

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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

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When is inequality fair? : an experiment on the effect of procedural justice and agency

Akbaş, Merve; Ariely, Dan; Yuksel, Sevgi - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 161 (2019), pp. 114-127

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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...

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