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 them...
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| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K.
Emerald
2011
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| Series: | Research on economic inequality
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| Collection: | Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Compensation, reward, and the measurement of unfair inequalities / Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine
- ch. 2. The implication of partial observability of circumstances on the measurement of IOp / Patrizia Luongo
- ch. 3. Mobility and long-term equality of opportunity / Flaviana Palmisano
- ch. 4. Measuring inequality in life chances with ordinal variables / Jacques Silber, Gaston Yalonetzky
- ch. 5. Equality of opportunity and redistribution in Europe / Lina Dunnzlaff, Dirk Neumann, Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl
- ch. 6. Measuring circumstances : Francs or Ranks, does it matter? / Arnaud Lefranc, Nicolas Pistolesi, Alain Trannoy
- ch. 7. Changes over time in parental education and inequality of opportunities in Chile / Andrea Báez-Montenegro, Juan Prieto-Rodríguez, Rafael Salas
- ch. 8. Vulnerability to poverty : a microeconometric approach and application to the Republic of Haiti / Evans Jadotte
- ch. 9. Inequality of opportunity in the United States : trends and decomposition / Gustavo A. Marrero, Juan G. Rodríguez