This note shows that for two inequality averse social welfare functions, if one is more inequality averse than the other, the household preference induced by optimally allocating aggregate bundles according to this social welfare function is more risk averse than the other. We present examples showing that this comparative static can be reversed if inequality aversion is dropped. We show that t...

For a society in transition from group-based hierarchical organization to a regime of equal opportunity one may ask whether group inequality engendered by past discrimination will eventually disappear. The answer is not obvious when ongoing social segregation leads different groups to benefit unequally from human capital spillovers. We identify conditions under which group differences in econom...

INTRODUCTION Social factors have been proved to be main determinants of individuals' health. Recent studies have also analyzed the contribution of some of those factors, such as education and job status, to socioeconomic inequalities in health. The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence about the factors driving socioeconomic inequalities in health for the Spanish population by including ...

This study has reviewed the lived experience of social and cultural active Kurdish women using qualitative methods and the Grounded Theory. The purpose of this study is identifying their attitude and practical responses to "gender inequality". Due to comparing two different aspects of these women's lived experience, at the end of the study, two paradigmatic models are obtained. The analysis of ...

This paper develops a theory of inequality and the social contract aiming to explain how countries with similar economic and political “fundamentals” can sustain such different systems of social insurance, fiscal redistribution, and education finance as those of the United States and Western Europe. With imperfect credit and insurance markets some redistributive policies can improve ex ante wel...

Debate surrounding the issue of inequality and hierarchy between social groups has become increasingly prominent in recent years. At the same time, individuals disagree about the extent to which inequality between advantaged and disadvantaged groups exists. Whereas prior work has examined the ways in which individuals legitimize (or delegitimize) inequality as a function of their motivations, w...

As the international community discusses the post-2015 development agenda, it is now clear that inequality will form an integral part of the sustainable development goals. Empirical evidence shows that increasing income inequality has been a feature of the world economy since the early 1980s. The current pattern of global income distribution is extremely unequal, both between countries and with...

Citizenship identity depends not only on a legal status, but essentially on access to social and economic resources. Thus, citizenship identity, the sense of belonging and solidarity, is necessarily connected with the problem of unequal distribution of resources in society. Modern conception of universal citizenship, specially when it is combined with extreme inequality and poverty, tends to ex...

This paper presents a political economy model of in‡ation as a result of social con‡ict. Agents are heterogeneous in terms of income. Agents’income levels determine their ability to hedge against the e¤ects of in‡ation. The interaction of heterogeneous cash holdings and preferences over …scal policy leads to con‡ict over how to …nance government expenditure. The model makes a number of predicti...