An Individual Relative Deprivation Index and Its Curve Considering Income Scope

Ren, Guoqiang; Pan, Xiuli

doi:10.1007/s11205-015-0944-3

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“…The Average Assumption Research into socioeconomic inequality has studied the impact of income on various outcomes and been confronted with the problem of how to integrate contradictory information from a variety of referents. The most common method is to average the difference between a person's income and the income of others' in their society to generate an index (e.g., Gini coefficient) and then use this index to predict social inequality, poverty, and individual well-being (e.g., Deaton, 2003;Ren & Pan, 2016;Yitzhaki, 1979). Recently, organization studies scholars have adopted a similar method to calculate relative salary level and then used it to predict current or subsequent work outcomes such as pay satisfaction, voluntary turnover, and performance (e.g., Connelly et al, 2016;Harris et al, 2008;Torre et al, 2015).…”

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Multiple salary comparisons, distributive justice, and employee withdrawal.

Xu,

Cropanzano,

McWha-Hermann

et al. 2024

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Salary comparison has well-established implications for employees' attitudes and behaviors at work. Yet how employees process information about simultaneous comparisons, particularly when internal and external comparison information is incongruent, remains controversial. In this article, we draw from the model of dispositional attribution and equity theory to predict how the incongruence of internal and external salary comparisons affects perceptions of distributive justice and subsequent employee withdrawal behavior. We hypothesized that the effect of salary comparisons on perceived distributive justice follows a hierarchically restrictive schema in which a lower salary in comparison to a referent has a greater effect than a higher salary. This further affects employee withdrawal (neglect, turnover intention, and voluntary turnover). We also propose that the effects of salary comparisons are bounded by employees' zero-sum construal of success. Three studies were conducted to test our hypotheses: a quasi-experimental study and two time-lagged field studies. Consistent with our hypotheses, we observed that, when comparison information was incongruent, underpayment compared with others more strongly affected perceived distributive justice than overpayment did. The subsequent impact on perceived distributive justice was negatively related to employee withdrawal. As expected, the effect of incongruent salary comparison information was stronger for employees with lower zero-sum construal of success. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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Multiple salary comparisons, distributive justice, and employee withdrawal.

Xu,

Cropanzano,

McWha-Hermann

et al. 2024

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…The Kakwani index is dimensionless and has regularization characteristics. Taking the mean value of the Kakwani index is the Gini coefficient, and the relative deprivation within the group can be objectively measured (Ren and Pan, 2016). Based on this, this section selects the Kakwani index to calculate the relative deprivation index of household income.…”

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The impact of the educational marriage-matching model on the household income gap

Huo

Chen

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Education has become one of the important selection criteria for homogeneous marriage. The proportion of educational homogeneous marriage in China's marriage market is increasing. The inequality of family income is closely related to the educational background of family members. The article is based on the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data. It uses the Recentralized Impact Function Regression Method (RIF) to empirically test that the marriage structure under different educational backgrounds has widened the income gap in Chinese households. Propensity score matching was used to correct possible selection bias and estimate the net effect of marital education matching on household income gaps. The results showed that the increase in the proportion of educational homogeneity in marriage would expand the family income gap. Based on theory and empirical evidence, some reasonable suggestions are put forward to advocate diversified marriages, strengthen social security, and reduce the family income gap.

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