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The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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Inequality of opportunity in educational achievements : cross-country and intertemporal comparisons
Luongo, Patrizia - 2015
This paper evaluates fairness in educational achievements through the ordered pair (WEEOp, IEOp) whose components … Assessment PISA, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012 are exploited to perform a cross-country and intertemporal comparison of fairness in … education. The cross-country comparison shows that none of the countries outperform in both components of fairness, whereas the …
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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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Conférence présidentielle : revisiting the debate on inequality and economic development
Bourguignon, François - In: Revue d'économie politique 125 (2015) 5, pp. 633-663
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Robust cross-country analysis of inequality of opportunity
Andreoli, Francesco; Fusco, Alessio - In: Economics letters 182 (2019), pp. 86-89
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Sustainable development goals and the study of economic inequality
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Journal of economic inequality 19 (2021) 1, pp. 3-11
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Estimation of inequality of opportunities across countries : a multidimensional approach
Akram, Shahla; Pervaiz, Zahid - In: Journal for studies in economics and econometrics : SEE 48 (2024) 1, pp. 18-41
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Fair weather? : Equity concerns in climate change
Toth, Ferenc L. (ed.) - 1999
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50 Vorschläge für eine gerechtere Welt : gegen Konzernmacht und Kapitalismus
Felber, Christian - 2006
Kritikpunkte der Globalisierungsbewegung an Weltwirtschaft, Entwicklungspolitik, Unternehmen und Sozialpolitik werden hier eingehend dargestellt und Alternativkonzepte vorgestellt. (Jürgen Plieninger)
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Towards full and decent employment
Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio (ed.);  … - 2007
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