in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …

consistent with several features of consumption data including (i) the substantial rise in within-cohort consumption inequality … (Deaton and Paxson 1994), (ii) the non-concave shape of the age-inequality profile (which the RIP model is not consistent with …

attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this … article I spell out the dominant notions of justice and the consequent criteria of equity for the main domains of global … factor which takes into account all undeserved inequalities, as suggested by Rawls’ theory of justice. With regard to the …

' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the disadvantaged player makes between pursuing a fair outcome from a disadvantaged … weak players persist in seeking "fairness" is also a function of how much it (potentially) costs them to do so. Students …-cost bargainers to demand fairness and to persist in their demands was a function of how much it cost them to do so, and the degree to …

in explaining such economic outcomes as inequality can lead to misinterpretations. Income should be adjusted for costs of …

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices … the results obtained to different degrees of inequality aversion and to different equivalence scales, taking into account …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …