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来源IDDP12989
DP12989 Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Paul Hufe; Ravi Kanbur; Andreas Peichl
发表日期2018-06-12
出版年2018
语种英语
摘要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 into account. Thereby, this paper is thefirst to reconcile two prominent fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and across countries (in Europe). First, unfair inequality shows different time trends and country rankings compared to total inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty aversion. Furthermore, we show that an exclusive focus on top incomes may misguide fairness judgments.
主题Public Economics
关键词Inequality Equality of opportunity Poverty Fairness Measurement
URLhttps://cepr.org/publications/dp12989
来源智库Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541797
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Paul Hufe,Ravi Kanbur,Andreas Peichl. DP12989 Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty. 2018.
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