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Jasso, Guillermina - 2016

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert...

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Unfair inequality and the demand for redistribution

Ahrens, Leo - 2019

Income inequality is rising but there seems to be no clear-cut effect on redistribution preferences, which is inconsistent with expectations of individual utility maximization. To explain this puzzle, recent research focuses on other-regarding motives. This study follows prior theorization...

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

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020

measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two idely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …

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Inequality, fairness and social capital

Fehr, Dietmar; Rau, Hannes; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Xu, Yilong - 2018

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Inequality, fairness and social capital

Fehr, Dietmar; Rau, Hannes; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Xu, Yilong - 2018

Abstract: We study the impact of unjust inequality on social trust and trustworthiness, and its separate effect on the economically successful and the unsuccessful, in a controlled economic experiment. We find evidence for a negative effect of unfair economic inequality on social interactions....

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

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

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … aversion. Furthermore, we show that an exclusive focus on top incomes may misguide fairness judgments. …

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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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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences

Klimm, Felix - 2018

Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived fairness will experience higher levels of life-time utility and are … perceived more positively with increased expected fairness. The opposite is expected for countries with low actual social …

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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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