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Inequality as Entitlements over Labor

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The modern study of economic inequality is based on the distribution of entitlements over goods and services. But social commentators at least since Rousseau have been concerned with a different aspect of economic inequality: that it implies that one person is entitled to command another person for their own personal ends. I call this inequality as entitlements over labor. I propose to measure entitlements over labor by calculating the extent to which top income groups can afford to buy the labor of others for the purpose of their personal consumption. Unlike standard inequality measures, this measure is not welfarist, but instead has its normative basis in relations of domination, hierarchy and social status between people. I estimate entitlements over labor in three high-inequality and two low-inequality countries and argue that inequality as entitlements over labor is socially and politically salient, capturing a side of inequality neglected by standard measures. (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper)

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  • Segal, Paul, 2020. "Inequality as Entitlements over Labor," SocArXiv x9fhq_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:x9fhq_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/x9fhq_v1
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