“Fair” Inequality? Attitudes toward Pay Differentials: The United States in Comparative Perspective

By L. Osberg, Timothy M. Smeeding. 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Cross-cultural Differences in Compensation Level and Inequality across Occupations: A Set-theoretic Analysis (2011, background): “Recent research has suggested that acceptance of inequality at various stages of the income distribution, for example inequality at the bottom versus at the top, may vary cross-nationally (Osberg and Smeeding 2006).”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “Osberg and Smeeding (2006) appealed to these questions in the 1999 ISSP survey.”
Why Income Inequality Is Dissatisfying—Perceptions of Social Status and the Inequality-Satisfaction Link in Europe (2019, background): “Prior research has shown that income inequalities are often not accurately perceived (Osberg and Smeeding, 2006; Norton and Ariely, 2011; Hauser and Norton, 2017; Gimpelson and Treisman, 2018), and they vary with the socioeconomic circumstances and ideological background of the individual (Schneider”
A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality (2009, neutral): “Wages and the wage distribution touch virtually every aspect of human experience, and are linked to fundamental features of individual and society, from health and happiness to status and the sense of justice to crime and revolution. The search for knowledge about wage processes and social and econo”
Economic development, income inequality and preferences for redistribution * (2010, background): “However, Osberg and Smeeding (2006) have recently challenged U.S. exceptionalism, providing evidence that American tolerance for inequality is not as categorical as conventional wisdom would suggest.”
The moral economy of inequality: popular views on income differentiation, poverty and wealth (2012, background): “…of ‘merit’—can be seen as representing an important part of such a dominant ideology (Kluegel and Smith, 1986, p. 5).5 Indeed, surveys show that this notion receives widespread support in all Western countries (Kluegel and Smith, 1986, p. 112; Marshall et al., 1999; Osberg and Smeeding, 2006).”
What's the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice? (2006, neutral): “Piketty (1995) chooses a more extreme modeling option, according to which voters only care about fairness, i.”
Income Inequality Influences Perceptions of Legitimate Income Differences (2017, neutral): “61#TAB##R# Osberg and Smeeding (2006) 62#TAB##R# See#TAB##R# also#TAB##R# the#TAB##R# mixed#TAB##R# results#TAB##R# from#TAB##R# an#TAB##R# inequality-‐information#TAB##R# experiment#TAB##R# in#TAB##R# Kuziemko#TAB##R# et#TAB##R# al.”