Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high …

Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …

Scholars have sought to quantify the extent of inequality which is inherited from past generations in multiple ways …, including a large body of work on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity. This paper makes two contributions … inequality of opportunity fit within a general framework which involves, as a first step, a calculation of the extent to which …

. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent … ; wages ; inequality ; social mobility …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences … how patterns of educational inequality vary across countries, time, and generations, and establish a link between … educational inequality and social mobility. We interpret this evidence from the perspective of economic models of skill …

aversion. Notably, we find that social class mobility does not affect SWB. We present evidence that the significant relative …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity (IOp) in … portion of total income inequality, with values ranging from 30 to 50 percent according to the standard deviation of logs. For …