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Shared prosperity : concepts, data, and some policy examples

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Galasso, Emanuela; Negre, Mario - 2018

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

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Opportunity-sensitive poverty measurement

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Ana Lugo, Maria - 2013

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity - one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …

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Inequality bands : seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America

Alvaredo, Facundo; Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, … - 2024

Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last seven decades. We find that there is quite a bit...

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Equality of opportunity : theory and evidence

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2015

opportunity - and empirical applications - are reviewed, and implications for the measurement of poverty and of the rate of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510602

Appraising cross-national income inequality databases : an introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lustig, Nora; Teles, Daniel - 2015

In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, a number of cross-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in purpose, coverage, data sources, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and quality of documentation....

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Inequality of opportunity, income inequality and economic mobility : some international comparisons

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2013

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity...

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Inequality of opportunity and economic growth : a cross-country analysis

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lakner, Christoph; Ana Lugo, … - 2014

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...

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Ageing poorly? : accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; … - 2017

The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent. Although the conventional explanation of a falling...

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Prioritarianism and equality of opportunity

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2021

This paper asks whether prioritarianism - the view that social welfare orderings should give explicit priority to the worse-off - is consistent with the normative theory of equality of opportunity. We show that there are inherent tensions between some of the axioms underpinning prioritarianism...

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Is there a "new consensus" on inequality?

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2023

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality? This paper argues that there is widespread acceptance that multiple, interrelated and mutually reinforcing inequalities exist - in income, wealth, education, health, power,...

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