This article examines the impact of socio-legal inequality on work conditions female domestic workers in Nigeria. Domestic is an important aspect productive labour and indispensable factor that contributes to well-being households economy. However, face challenges are multidimensional gendered; they often victims physical sexual abuse, experience discrimination concerning pay, working condition...

This paper argues that a generalized model of social preferences must simultaneously pass two tests; the Variety Test (explain outcomes under variety, the V-test) and the Psychological Test (conform to psychological intuition, the P-test). It is shown that none of the models proposed to date unconditionally passes these tests. The paper extends the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality-aversion ...

This paper examines the implications, for overall social welfare and inequality comparisons, of using different definitions of the unit of analysis the income recipient in computing summary measures. Comparisons are made using the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator (MITTS), a simulation model of the Australian direct tax and benefit system, of the effects of flattening the marginal ...

This article investigates the properties, good and bad, of social evaluations based on four money measures of well-being or changes in well-being: compensating variations, money metrics, extended money metrics, and welfare ratios. Consistency of social rankings (transitivity, asymmetry of preference), the possibility of incorporating inequality aversion, independence of the choice of reference ...

This paper considers the macroeconomic implications of a set of empirical studies finding a high degree of dispersion in preference heterogeneity. It develops a model with both uninsurable idiosyncratic income risk and risk aversion heterogeneity to quantify their effects on wealth inequality. The results show that with the available estimates of the risk aversion distribution from PSID data th...

This paper examines how to satisfy a separability condition related to " independence of the utilities of the dead " (Blackorby et al., 1995; Bommier and Zuber, 2008) in the class of " expected equally distributed equivalent " social orderings (Fleurbaey, 2010). It also inquires into the possibility to keep some aversion to inequality in this context. It is shown that the social welfare functio...

Some people have a concern for a fair distribution of incomes while others do not. Does such a concern matter for majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are pivotal. Pivotality, in turn, depends on the structure of income classes. We experimentally study voting on redistribution between two income classes and s...

This paper incorporates compassion into social preferences and tracks individuals’ choices over ten allocation decisions, categorizing participants’ behavior more precisely than previous work. Approximately two-thirds of participants exhibit consistent preferences in all ten exercises and other-regarding individuals are almost evenly split between inequity aversion and social surplus maximizati...

introduction: based on human studies, inequality and social injustice have adverse effects on the individual and community health. in this study, the effects of food intake inequality and social status changes on pain perception and immunological factors were investigated in balb/c mice. methods: the present study was conducted by implementing different social stresses including food deprivatio...