Research findings on the consequences of income inequality for subjective wellbeing (ie life
satisfaction and happiness) remain inconclusive. Some researchers report a positive spill …

This study reviews international comparative studies investigating people's views on
inequality. These studies are classified using a framework consisting of three types of …

According to the 'median-voter'hypothesis, greater inequality in the market distribution of
earnings or income tends to produce greater generosity in redistributive policy. We outline …

This article argues that public opinion regarding the legitimacy of income differences is
influenced by actual income inequality. When income differences are perceived to be high …

We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker
sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes …

In Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia's attempts to transition from a
socialist vision of housing, in which the government promised a separate, state-owned …

通过分析2005 年中国城镇居民的调查数据发现, 教育的启蒙性质能够使人超越狭隘的利己主义,
从而对不平等持更加批判的态度; 国有部门就业者和老年人所认可的不平等程度较低 …

To explain the legitimation of inequality among the members of a social system, we blend
system justification theory and the theory of social judgment. We identify adaptation and …

What attitudes relating to differences in occupational earnings did people in state-socialist
societies hold before and after the transformation in 1989, compared with people in market …

Over the past decades income inequality has been sharply increasing in both mainland
China and Hong Kong, two Chinese societies that have distinct paths of institutional …