期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN：0804-6824
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：Bergen
摘要：The standard approach to inequality measurement regards all inequalities
as being unfair. However, most people do not share this view, and believe
that some inequalities are fair. This paper shows one way of generalizing the
standard approach to take account of the distinction between fair and unfair
inequalities. Within this framework, we introduce the unfairness Lorenz curve
and the unfairness Gini, which are generalizations of the standard versions of
the Lorenz curve and the Gini.
With this more general framework in place, we study the implications of
responsibility-sensitive theories of justice for the evaluation of the income dis-
tribution in Norway from 1986 to 2005. We nd that the income distribution
has become unfairer in Norway, even though the standard Gini has decreased
over the same period. We show that this conclusion holds for di
erent views
on what individuals should be held responsible for, and for alternative speci -
cations of the responsibility-sensitive fairness principle.
