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The legal origin of income inequality

2014

The legal origin movement is implicitly functionalist, while it explicitly prioritizes economic dimensions of development. From this perspective, the empirical findings presented in this paper seem to uncover the existence of a paradox. On the one hand, common law countries are apparently characterized by countless advantages, yet they do not grow faster than civil law countries. On the other hand, common law countries present a more unequal distribution of income, thus suggesting that also from a static perspective there is no a priori reason to prefer a common law system. To further investigate this paradox, we analyze if common law countries are at least characterized by a better kind (e…

Inequalitybusiness.industryCommon lawmedia_common.quotation_subjectEconomics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)Perspective (graphical)Developing countryDistribution (economics)International tradeDevelopmentEconomic inequalityEconomicsPositive economicsbusinessLawdeveloping countries legal origins inequality of outcome Income inequality inequality of opportunitymedia_common
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An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Perceived Inequality

2017

Perception of inequality is important for the analysis of individuals' motivations and decisions and for policy assessment. Despite the broad range of analytic gains that it grants, our knowledge about measurement and determinants of perception of inequality is still limited, since it is intrinsically unobservable, multidimensional, and essentially contested. Using a novel econometric approach, we study how observable individual characteristics affect the joint distribution of a set of indicators of perceived inequality in specific domains. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme, we shed light on the associations among these indicators and how they are affected by covaria…

Economics and EconometricsInequalitymedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesInternational Social Survey ProgrammeAffect (psychology)UnobservableJoint probability distributionPerception0502 economics and businessCovariateEconometricsEconomics050207 economicsSet (psychology)Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politica050205 econometrics media_commonPerception of inequality inequality of outcome inequality of opportunity fairness.
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