This paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality and inequality of opportunities for income acquisition in nine developed countries during the 1990s. Equality of opportunity is defined as the situation where income distributions conditional on social origin cannot be ranked...

Nous appréhendons l’égalité des chances de revenu comme une situation où il n’est pas possible de classer les distributions conditionnelles de revenu du fils par rapport à la CSP du père selon les critères de dominance stochastique d’ordre 1 ou 2. Les données utilisées proviennent...

To analyze equality of opportunity we examine the influence of family characteristics on the distribution of outcome for a given generation. Here, we study changes in equality of opportunity for income acquisition between 1977 and 1993, conditional on father?s income level and income rank, using...

We offer a model of equality of opportunity that encompasses different conceptions expressed in the public and philosophical debates. In addition to circumstances whose effect on outcome should be compensated and effort which represents a legitimate source of inequality, we introduce a third...