Family background characteristics and educational resources are crucial in shaping individuals' income and therefore a potential source of income inequality and inequality of …
A Choudhary, GT Muthukkumaran, A Singh - Social Indicators Research, 2019 - Springer
Inequality of opportunity (IOp) in any society is defined as that part of overall inequality which arises from factors beyond the control of an individual (circumstances) such as parental …
The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the behaviour of Inequality of Opportunity (IOp henceforth) in developing countries. The analysis is carried out using microdata collected by …
A Suárez Álvarez… - Bulletin of Economic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we provide an analysis of inequalities and opportunities within European countries. For this purpose, we use microdata from 26 European countries collected using …
We carry out a comparative analysis of inequality of opportunity (IOp) for long-run income in Denmark and the United States. We adopt a luck-egalitarian understanding of IOp, use …
A Suárez Álvarez… - International Regional …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this article is to analyze inequality and inequality of opportunity (IOp) for the Spanish regions Autnomous Communities (CCAA), paying main attention to the situation of …
The linkage between income inequality and citizens' support for democracy has widely been discussed in the literature (eg Acemoglu and Robinson, 2001; Andersen, 2012). However …
Although there is an extensive methodological literature on the measurement of income mobility, there has been little research on the conceptual interpretation of mobility measures …
Immigration has been identified as one of the most prominent political problems in Europe, whose relevance has increased since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic. In order to gain …