Inequality of opportunity : theory and measurement /
"Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 19, Inequality of Opportunity contains eight papers, both theoretical and applied, on the concept of equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald,
2011.
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| ISBN: | 9781780520353 1780520352 1283354721 9781283354721 9786613354723 6613354724 |
| ISSN: | 1049-2585 ; |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Compensation, reward, and the measurement of unfair inequalities / Paolo Brunori and Vito Peragine
- chapter 2. The implication of partial observability of circumstances on the measurement of IOp / Patrizia Luongo
- chapter 3. Mobility and long-term equality of opportunity / Flaviana Palmisano
- chapter 4. Measuring inequality in life chances with ordinal variables / Jacques Silber and Gaston Yalonetzky
- chapter 5. Equality of opportunity and redistribution in Europe / Lina Dunnzlaff, Dirk Neumann, Judith Niehues and Andreas Peichl
- chapter 6. Measuring circumstances: Francs or Ranks, does it matter? / Arnaud Lefranc, Nicolas Pistolesi and Alain Trannoy
- chapter 7. Changes over time in parental education and inequality of opportunities in Chile / Andrea Báez-Montenegro, Juan Prieto-Rodríguez and Rafael Salas
- chapter 8. Vulnerability to poverty : a microeconometric approach and application to the Republic of Haiti / Evans Jadotte
- chapter 9. Inequality of opportunity in the United States : trends and decomposition / Gustavo A. Marrero and Juan G. Rodríguez.