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Tracking can be more equitable than mixing: Peer effects and college attendance
Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
Parents and policy makers often wonder whether, and how, the choice between a tracked or a mixed educational system affects the efficiency and equity of national educational outcomes. This paper analyzes this question taking into account their impact on educational results at later stages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464056
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Cross-Country Convergence in Income Inequality
Dhongde, Shatakshee; Miao, Xing - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
Neoclassical models imply convergence of the entire distribution, not just the mean income levels. In this paper, we … test for convergence in income inequality across countries. We compile extensive data on gini indices over a period of 25 … years. Convergence in inequality is tested separately for developed and developing countries, using cross-section and panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667422
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Switching from convergence to divergence in the European Union: A case study
Zarotiadis, Grigoris; Gkagka, Aristea - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
economy), there is a clear evidence for a profound, unpleasant, structural change regarding convergence. During the first two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516752
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Inequality of opportunity and growth
Marrero, Gustavo A.; Rodríguez, Juan G. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
Theoretical and empirical studies exploring the effects of income inequality upon growth reach a disappointing inconclusive result. This paper postulates that one reason for this ambiguity is that income inequality is actually a composite measure of at least two different sorts of inequality:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512109
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Accounting for family background when designing optimal income taxes: A microeconometric simulation analysis
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512111
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Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curves
Vega, Ma. Casilda Lasso de la - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
Most of the data available for measuring capabilities or dimensions of poverty is either ordinal or categorical. However, the majority of the indices introduced for the assessment of multidimensional poverty behave well only with cardinal variables. The counting approach introduced by Atkinson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512116
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On the binomial decomposition of OWA functions, the 3-additive case in n dimensions
Bortot, Silvia; Pereira, Ricardo Alberto Marques; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015
In the context of the binomial decomposition of OWA functions, we investigate the parametric constraints associated with the 3-additive case in n dimensions. The resulting feasible region in two coefficients is a convex polygon with n vertices and n edges, and is strictly increasing in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235047
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Equality of opportunity: Theory and evidence
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities which are unfair and should be compensated....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235048
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Decomposing inequality `at work': Cross-country evidence from EU-SILC
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015
We propose a structural model to estimate inequality of opportunity (IOp) among workers and to distinguish two different sources of inequality: (i) inequality in the labour attachment and (ii) inequality in the remuneration of each working hour. Considering working hours as a measure of effort,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195798
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275