Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity.

Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory of progressive taxation.

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Year of publication:	2000
Authors:	Benabou, R. ; Ok, E.A.
Institutions:	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Subject:	INCOME DISTRIBUTION \| TAXATION \| SOCIAL WELFARE

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Series:	Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School - Public and International Affairs.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	24 pages
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; H20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue. General ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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