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Education, Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality
Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joel - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational … inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has … not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of education and intergenerational mobility modelling are subsequently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627584
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Intergenerational transmission of education - Uncovering the mechanisms behind high intergenerational correlations
Juárez, Florian Wendelspiess Chávez - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Education is a main player in social mobility, however, it remains unclear through which channel the high observed …'s schooling attainment, even when controlling for all other possible channels. Parental education has direct and indirect effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627587
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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
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Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Latin America: Evidence from PISA 2006-2009
Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Waltenberg, Fábio D. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
type (public or private), gender, parental education, and combinations of those variables. We calculate ?incremental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249985
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Gray-Molina, George; Higgins, Sean; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … the country. When in-kind transfers in education and health are added, however, the bottom six deciles are net recipients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163079
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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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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality: Theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274353
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Opportunity-sensitive poverty measurement
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco; Lugo, Maria Ana; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 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 to differences in opportunities faced by people with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878115
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Equalization of opportunity: Definitions and implementable conditions
Andreoli, Francesco; Lefranc, Arnaud - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
This paper develops a criterion of opportunity equalization, that is consistent with theoretical views of equality of opportunity. Our analysis rests on the characterization of inequality of opportunity as a situation where some groups in society enjoy an illegitimate advantage. In this context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878131
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Fair and unfair income inequalities in Europe
Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
find that ex-ante equality of opportunity exhibits positive correlation with public expenditure in education, whereas ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495155