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  title info:
    title: Inequality of opportunity
    sub title: theory and measurement
  name:
    name part: Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Bingley, U.K
    publisher: Emerald
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 246 p.) : ill.
  abstract: Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 19, Inequality of Opportunity contains eight papers, both theoretical and applied, on the concept of equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of effort. Theoretical papers discuss to what extent some of the measures of inequality of opportunity meet the reward and the compensation principles, a new methodology for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the equality of opportunity principle, the implications of partial observability of individuals circumstances on the measurement of inequality of opportunity and the advantages of applying segregation indices to study inequality in life chances when the variable is ordinal. The applied work includes studies that investigate how governments affect inequality of opportunity through the design of their tax and transfer schemes in 15 European countries, the changing role of circumstances for measuring inequality of opportunity in Chile, the existence of a poverty trap in Haiti and its consequences for equality of opportunity, and the importance of the correlation between circumstances and effort in the measurement of inequality of opportunity in U.S. during the period 1969-2007.
  table of contents: ch. 1. Compensation, reward, and the measurement of unfair inequalities / Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine -- ch. 2. The implication of partial observability of circumstances on the measurement of IOp / Patrizia Luongo -- ch. 3. Mobility and long-term equality of opportunity / Flaviana Palmisano -- ch. 4. Measuring inequality in life chances with ordinal variables / Jacques Silber, Gaston Yalonetzky -- ch. 5. Equality of opportunity and redistribution in Europe / Lina Dunnzlaff, Dirk Neumann, Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl -- ch. 6. Measuring circumstances : Francs or Ranks, does it matter? / Arnaud Lefranc, Nicolas Pistolesi, Alain Trannoy -- ch. 7. Changes over time in parental education and inequality of opportunities in Chile / Andrea Báez-Montenegro, Juan Prieto-Rodríguez, Rafael Salas -- ch. 8. Vulnerability to poverty : a microeconometric approach and application to the Republic of Haiti / Evans Jadotte -- ch. 9. Inequality of opportunity in the United States : trends and decomposition / Gustavo A. Marrero, Juan G. Rodríguez.
  note: edited by Juan Gabriel Rodríguez.
  subject:
    topic: Income distribution
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Business & Economics
    topic: Economics
    topic: Comparative
  subject:
    topic: Business & Economics
    topic: Economics
    topic: Theory
  subject:
    topic: Labour economics
  subject:
    topic: Behavioural economics
  classification: HC79.I5 I54 2011
  classification: 339.2
  classification: 330.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research on economic inequality ; v. 19
  identifier: 9781780520353 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1049-2585/19
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    record creation date: 111123
    record change date: 20111123144721.0
    record identifier: bslw08039214