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Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single … powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers- an environment that can lead to pronounced inequality among the …
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inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution …The steady increase in inequality over the past decades has revived a lively debate about what can be considered a fair … inequality. We focus on situations in which the rich have potentially acquired their fortunes by means of cheating. In an …
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relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
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the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …
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We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …
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We employ panel data from three waves of a large representative population survey carried out between June and November 2020 to assess in what regards and to what extent different groups of the German population are affected by the COVID- 19 crisis. Using common factor analysis, we demonstrate...
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We show that a recent appendix to the Gini-coefficient to make the latter more sensitive to asymmetric income distributions can be viewed as an abstract measure of skewness. We develop some of its properties and apply it to the US-income distribution in 1974 and 2010.
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This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions … of inequality aversion. We use two integrated assessment models (FUND and RICE) for our numerical exercise to get more … robust findings. Our results suggest that inequality considerations lead to a higher (lower) SCC values in high (low) income …
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metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social … cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of inequality - heterogeneity in income below the national level. We … inequality between and within countries. In particular, we demonstrate that climate and distributional policy cannot be separated …
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