Work, Earnings and Other Aspects of the Employment Relation

RESEARCH ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY......Page 1
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 4
Introduction......Page 6
Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation......Page 9
Macrojustice......Page 10
The Simple Case, Notations......Page 13
A Solution......Page 14
Rawls’s Final Solution......Page 15
The Geometry of ELIE......Page 16
Properties......Page 17
Solution 4: Equal Liberty of Unequal Domains......Page 18
Equal Liberty......Page 21
Deserts and Merit, Equality and Classical Liberalism, Work and Works......Page 22
Progressive Transfers, Total Concentration......Page 23
Tax Structure and Reform......Page 24
Other Meanings......Page 25
Multidimensional labour, non-linear production......Page 26
Incentive Compatibility and Information......Page 28
The Constitution Test......Page 29
Comparison with the other economic and ethical theories......Page 31
Notes......Page 32
References......Page 36
The Earned Income and Legitimate Ownership Test......Page 38
The Implementability Test......Page 39
The Rawls (and Many Other Scholars) Test......Page 40
The Mirrlees (1971) Test......Page 41
Unemployment......Page 43
Introduction......Page 45
Notation and Definitions......Page 46
Basic Axioms......Page 47
Absolute measures......Page 48
Characterisation......Page 49
Properties of the J-Class......Page 50
Characterisation......Page 52
Properties......Page 53
Discussion......Page 54
References......Page 55
Introduction......Page 56
The model......Page 59
The mechanisms......Page 60
A Particular Case......Page 62
An illustration: equal-opportunity policies for health care......Page 63
Discussion......Page 68
Notes......Page 70
References......Page 71
Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy......Page 73
Introduction......Page 74
The Analytical Framework......Page 77
Defining Equality of Opportunity......Page 78
Testing for the Existence of EOp......Page 80
Ranking Distributions of Opportunity Sets......Page 81
The empirical analysis: equality of opportunity in the Italian higher education system......Page 84
Data Description......Page 85
Statistical Analysis and Methodology......Page 86
Empirical Results......Page 87
Concluding remarks......Page 94
Notes......Page 96
References......Page 97
Summary Statistics......Page 99
Proofs......Page 100
Statistical Tests......Page 101
Inequality of opportunity for income in five countries of Africa......Page 104
Introduction......Page 105
The measurement and analysis of inequality of opportunity......Page 107
Data and variables construction......Page 112
Results: differences in inequality of opportunity for income......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 126
Notes......Page 127
References......Page 128
: Decomposition of inequality of opportunity indexes using the log-linear model......Page 130
Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity:a comparison of the United States and Germany......Page 134
Introduction......Page 135
Preferences for redistribution......Page 137
Step 3: Evaluating the Posttax Income Distribution......Page 140
The Difference-Based Lorenz Curve......Page 141
Step 2: Identifying Fair Posttax Income......Page 142
Step 1: Estimating the Pretax Income-Generating Process......Page 144
Estimating the income-generating process......Page 147
Measuring unfairness......Page 149
Hours Worked as the Only Responsibility Variable......Page 150
Education and Hours Worked as Responsibility Variables......Page 151
Age as a Responsibility Variable......Page 152
The Libertarian Responsibility Cut......Page 154
The egalitarian equivalent and conditional egalitarian fair income: a robustness analysis......Page 155
Concluding remarks......Page 156
Acknowledgment......Page 159
References......Page 160
Intergenerational income inequality and dynastic poverty persistence: Germany and the United States compared......Page 162
Introduction......Page 163
Empirical results......Page 165
Methodology......Page 167
Conclusions......Page 178
References......Page 179
Introduction......Page 181
Generalized, Relative, and Absolute Lorenz Dominances: Definitions......Page 183
Generalized Lorenz Dominance: Limited Possibility......Page 185
Lorenz Dominances: Impossibility......Page 187
Concluding remarks......Page 190
References......Page 191
Multidimensional unit- and subgroup-consistent inequality and poverty measures: some characterizations......Page 193
Introduction......Page 194
Concluding remarks......Page 195
Unit-Consistency Axiom for Multidimensional Inequality Measures......Page 198
Multidimensional Unit-Consistent Inequality Measures......Page 200
Notations and Basic Axioms of Multidimensional Poverty Measures......Page 205
Unit-Consistency Axiom for Multidimensional Poverty Measures......Page 207
Multidimensional Unit-Consistent Poverty Measures......Page 209
Notes......Page 212
References......Page 213
Rankings of income distributions: a note on intermediate inequality indices......Page 216
Notes......Page 217
Final remarks......Page 218
Nonlinear Invariance Criteria......Page 224
References......Page 230
The Bonferroni, Gini, and De Vergottini indices. Inequality, welfare, and deprivation in the European union in 2000......Page 233
Introduction......Page 234
Formal framework and properties......Page 235
Definition of the Indices for Discrete Distributions......Page 240
Normative aspects......Page 243
Bonferroni absolute index and De Vergottini absolute index as deprivation measures8......Page 245
An empirical illustration. European Union 2000......Page 248
Notes......Page 256
References......Page 257
On various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland......Page 260
Introduction......Page 261
On the link between the unemployment duration profile curve and Sen’s index of poverty (when applied to the measurement of unemployment)......Page 262
Deriving a More Complete Measure of Unemployment......Page 264
Note......Page 269
Analyzing the impact of the maximum unemployment Duration......Page 275
Concluding comments......Page 279
References......Page 280
On the concept of Shapley decomposition......Page 283
Names of the cantons and their abbreviation......Page 285
Income mobility in Argentina......Page 286
Introduction......Page 287
Macroeconomic behavior and income distribution since the mid-1970s......Page 289
Income Mobility......Page 291
The Impact of Mobility on Inequality......Page 292
Changes in the Intensity of Mobility......Page 293
Methods......Page 294
Income Instability......Page 295
Income Mobility......Page 298
The database used......Page 299
Longitudinal Data......Page 300
Pseudo-Panels......Page 301
Instability of Individual Incomes......Page 303
Instability of Household Incomes......Page 305
The Evolution of Income Mobility......Page 309
Income Mobility and Income Distribution......Page 313
Convergence or Divergence in Incomes......Page 315
Conclusions......Page 318
Notes......Page 320
References......Page 321
Risk level and inequality preference......Page 323
Introduction......Page 324
Basic definitions......Page 325
The experiment......Page 326
Experiment......Page 327
Phase I: The Task......Page 328
Phase III: The Payment......Page 329
The Bet......Page 330
Conclusion......Page 333
First task......Page 334
Will the gamble be individual or for the entire groupquest......Page 336