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Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...
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This paper evaluates fairness in educational achievements through the ordered pair (WEEOp, IEOp) whose components … Assessment PISA, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012 are exploited to perform a cross-country and intertemporal comparison of fairness in … education. The cross-country comparison shows that none of the countries outperform in both components of fairness, whereas the …
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The book ”Capital in the 21. Century” by Piketty (2014) marked the peak of attention for the topic of income inequality and spread awareness on the importance of ongoing research. During my master thesis, I had worked on decomposition methods for labor earnings. Motivated by this development...
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Die Tsunami-Katastrophe und neue internationale Vorschläge zur Entwicklungshilfe haben dem Thema Gerechtigkeit und Entwicklung erneut einen hohen Stellenwert in den internationalen Beziehungen gegeben. Bringt jedoch eine Erhöhung der Entwicklungshilfe tatsächlich mehr Wohlstand für arme...
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