Abstract
This chapter reports on original empirical work on the relation between income and capabilities. In doing so, it presents the first direct attempt to measure and test relevant elements of the multicapability theory.1 The analysis aims at the first three predictions mentioned in Chapter 7: that capabilities can be made operational, that job wage rates can be explained from capability requirements, and that capabilities are separable and divisible. The data apply to the United States and were taken from two different sources: income was derived from the Census of Population (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1950, 1960, 1970), and capabilities from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) (U.S. Department of Labor, 1965).
Grant, oh God, Thy benedictions on my theory’s predictions.
—R.L. Weber and E. Mendoza (1973)
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Hartog, J. (1981). Measurement and Testing on American Data. In: Personal Income Distribution. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8760-9_8
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