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Absolute or relative: perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique

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  • Giulia Barletta
  • Ines A. Ferreira
  • Vincenzo Salvucci

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Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their perceptions are based on relative or absolute terms. It follows the line of work which examines attitudes (perceptions and preferences) towards different distributional axioms, and focuses on scale and translation invariance.

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  • Giulia Barletta & Ines A. Ferreira & Vincenzo Salvucci, 2023. "Absolute or relative: perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-32, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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