Bourguignon, Francois; Ferreira, Francisco H.B.; … - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2005
This paper proposes a method to decompose earnings inequality into a component due to unequal opportunities and a residual term. Drawing on the distinction between ‘circumstance’ and ‘effort’ variables in John Roemer’s work on equality of opportunity, we associate inequality of...