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The Measurement of Horizontal Inequality

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1989
An alternative approach to the measurement of horizontal inequality is developed. This measure of inequality is based on an explicit social welfare function which is formulated so as to be consistent with the basic principles of social choice. The arguments of the social welfare function are welfare functions that depend on prices, total expenditure ...
D. Slesnick
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Horizontal Mergers and Wage Inequality

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2018
This paper incorporates horizontal mergers into the general-equilibrium framework embedded with game theory and separately analyzes how horizontal mergers in the skilled sector and the unskilled sector influence the skilled-unskilled wage inequality. In an economy with full employment, a horizontal merger in the skilled sector will certainly reduce the
Jiancai Pi, Pengqing Zhang
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Horizontal inequity comparisons [PDF]

Social Choice and Welfare, 2001
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Valentino Dardanoni, Peter Lambert,
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Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality

, 2020
Social science answers to the essential question of group conflict have focused on two main explanations—their motivating “grievances” and their mobilization “capacity” for collective action.
David S. Siroky, C. Warner, Gabrielle Filip-Crawford, Anna Berlin, Steven L. Neuberg   +4 more
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Vertical and horizontal inequality are status and power differences: applications to stereotyping by competence and warmth.

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2019
Status (respect, prestige) and power (resource control) arguably form two kinds of inequality. Status differences appear culturally reasonable as vertical inequality-with a common rationale: meritocracy (deservingness). High-status individuals and groups
S. Fiske, Xuechunzi Bai
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MOBILITY, INEQUALITY, AND HORIZONTAL EQUITY

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
Mobility implies initial and final distributions and a transition process linking the observations of these two distributions. An inequality index describes properties of the intitial or final distribution. A mobility index describes the transition.
Shlomo Yitzhaki, Quentin T. Wodon
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Horizontal inequality and ethnic discrimination in four Latin American countries

CEPAL Review, 2018
This article analyses ethnic discrimination in Mexico relative to Chile, Colombia and Peru from a perspective of horizontal inequality. It presents the numerous ways in which such discrimination is perpetuated and shows how far back in history ...
A. Puyana
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Vertical redistribution and horizontal inequity

Working Paper Series, 1995
Inequality of post-tax income among pre-tax equals is evaluated and aggregated to form a global index of horizontal inequity in the income tax. The vertical action of the tax is captured by its inequality effect on average between groups of pre-tax equals. Putting the two together, horizontal inequity measures loss of vertical performance.
Xavier Ramos, Peter Lambert
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