Publication: Searching by questionaire for the meaning of income inequality
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1992-12
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Amien and Cowell (1992) have recently performed an experimental test by questionnaire to investigate whether a sample of individuals corroborate the general consensus found in the literature about a number of axioms on the meaning of 'inequality'. They obtained some mixed results. In this article we report on a replica of the experiment with some novelties: we introudce the role of political attitudes toward income redistribution to clarify the interpretation of some results; the questionnaire is enlarged in an attempt to give more room to notions of inequality imtermediate between the relative and absolute polar cases; and we provide a systematic treatment of the degree of consistency exhibited by the respondents.
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Inequality, Experimental economics