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Empirical approaches to inequality of opportunity: Principles, measures, and evidence
Ramos, Xavi; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2012
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283980
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716166
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Equality of opportunity for well-being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717717
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Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?
Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2017
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763830
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Approaches to inequality of opportunity : principles, measures and evidence
Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - In: Journal of economic surveys 30 (2016) 5, pp. 855-883
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Measurement of inequality of opportunity based on counterfactuals
Van de Gaer, Dirk; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015
opportunity should have. Standard methods for the measurement of inequality of opportunity require the construction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408189
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Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?
Ramos, Xavier - 2017
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942095
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Equality of opportunity : theory and evidence
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2015
accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities … theory of social justice: the principles of compensation and reward. Ex-ante and ex-post versions of the compensation … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510602
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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation
Tungodden, Bertil - 2001
this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic …It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors … environments. However, on a general basis, even this weaker version of the ethics of responsibility is not compatible with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399693
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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
individual outcomes were the result of effort, proponents of an equal-opportunity ethic would accept outcome differences across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484012