An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Perceived Inequality (original) (raw)

Perception of inequality is important for the analysis of individuals' decisions and for policy assessment. Despite the broad range of analytic gains that it grants, our knowledge about perception of inequality, its measurement and its causes is still limited since it is intrinsically unobservable, multidimensional and essentially contested. Using a novel econometric approach, we study how observable individual characteristics affect the joint distribution of a set of indicators of perceived inequality in a specific domain. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme (2009 wave), we offer a new tool to analyze the associations among these indicators and how they are affected by covariates.

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