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Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity
Kanbur, Ravi; Stiglitz, Joseph E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252615
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Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504401
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How Useful is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct?
Kanbur, Ravi; Wagstaff, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. More recently, the concepts and measures have begun to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors like health and education. Indeed, it is argued that one advantage of focusing on equality of opportunity is that...
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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662063
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Community and Class Antagonism
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from which outsiders are excluded. We formulate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666575
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Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791379
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Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey through Revolution, Reform and Openness
Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist … Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of … integration in the late 1990s. Regional inequality in China in 1999 exceeds the level experienced at its peak in the Cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661875
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Pay Differences Between Men and Women: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1946 Birth Cohort
Joshi, Heather; Newell, Marie-Louise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504211
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The Cash Opportunity of Childbearing: An Approach Using British Data
Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work experience and current hours of work. In addition, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792397
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Environmental Policy and Capital Movements: The Role of Government Commitment
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
the effects of two different constitutions (commitment or no commitment in tax policy), as well as income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792126