ABSTRACT

Chapter 3 develops the conceptual tool “justice profiles” to measure wage distribution fairness. The chapter first describes in detail the building blocks of justice profiles: justice evaluation of rules and justice evaluation of outcomes. While justice evaluation of outcomes is already an established measure in outcome-related justice, justice evaluation of rules is a new concept introduced in the current study. The chapter further discusses the possibilities to combine the justice evaluations by first trying to understand why scholars previously have not combined the two aspects. It also seeks inspiration from findings in the field of procedural justice to combine the two aspects. It concludes that the best way to combine justice evaluation of rules and justice evaluation of outcomes is in a typology. The typology is termed justice profiles. The chapter also discusses the various application possibilities of justice profiles. In the final section, the chapter positions the approach of justice profiles and wage distribution fairness in the broader taxonomy of empirical justice research.