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.

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不平等作为劳动权

对经济不平等的现代研究基于对商品和服务的权利分配。但是至少从卢梭起，社会评论家就一直关注经济不平等的另一个方面：这意味着一个人有权为了自己的个人目的而命令另一个人。我称这种不平等为劳动权利。我建议通过计算最高收入群体为个人消费目的而能够购买他人的劳动力的程度来衡量劳动力的应享权利。与标准的不平等措施不同，该措施不是福利主义的，而是在人与人之间的统治，等级和社会地位的关系中具有规范基础。我估计了三个较高的不平等和两个较低的不平等国家对劳动的应享权利，并认为不平等作为对劳动的应享权利在社会和政治上都很突出，体现了标准措施所忽略的不平等的一面。