Towards fairer borders: Alleviating global inequality of opportunity

Inequality of Opportunity and Growth

Theoretical models and empirical studies exploring the relationship between income inequality and growth reach a disappointing inconclusive answer. We postulate in this paper that one reason for this inconclusive result is that income inequality consist at least in two different sorts of inequality, inequality of opportunity and effort. These two types of inequality would affect growth through ...

Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil

Opportunity egalitarianism and income inequality

In order to study the implications of the opportunity egalitarian theory of justice for the definition of welfare and inequality criteria, in this paper we extend the rank-dependent approach to the measurement of social welfare, suggested by Yaari [J. Econ. Theory 44 (1988)], to the case of income distributions which can be decomposed across homogeneous sub-groups. We then capture (some of) the...

Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

In this paper we propose di¤erent criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Di¤erent from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and e¤ort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing criteria; then we propose some scalar measures. We show that our ex post criteria are mostly obtained from "...

Dynastic inequality, mobility and equality of opportunity

One often heard counter to the concern about rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot”. Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what matters for normative evaluation. In response to this counter, we ask what pattern of intergenerational mobility leads to lower inequality not between indiv...