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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence

Ramos, Xavi; Van de gaer, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...

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Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities … theory of social justice: the principles of compensation and reward. Ex-ante and ex-post versions of the compensation … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of …

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...

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Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the posterior probability that men’s upward income mobility...

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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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In the Eye of the Beholder: Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution

Kuhn, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper presents a simple conceptual framework intended for describing individuals' subjective evaluations of occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the distinction between individuals' perceptions and their...

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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. The standard glass ceiling hypothesis highlights the belief that the playing field...

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Earnings Inequality

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Inequality has increased considerably in many Western countries over the past decades. When dealing with economic inequality as a research subject the question "inequality of what among whom" arises. Analyses of inequality are typically concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or...

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Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation

Andreoli, Francesco; Havnes, Tarjei; Lefranc, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper develops a criterion to assess equalization of opportunity that is consistent with theoretical views of equality of opportunity. We characterize inequality of opportunity as a situation where some groups in society enjoy an illegitimate advantage. In this context, equalization of...

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Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity in Italy

Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper proposes a definition of equality of educational opportunities. Then, it develops a comprehensive model that allows to test for the existence of equality of opportunity in a given distribution and to rank distributions according to equality of opportunity. Finally, it provides an...

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