Opportunity and Social Mobility
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Review of Economic Studies
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1467-937X,0034-6527
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937x.2006.00384.x