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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility : Some International Comparisons
dc.contributor.author | Brunori, Paolo | |
dc.contributor.author | Ferreira, Francisco H.G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Peragine, Vito | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-29T17:34:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-29T17:34:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and intergenerational mobility. The analysis finds evidence of a "Kuznets curve" for inequality of opportunity, and finds that the IEO index is positively correlated with overall income inequality, and negatively with measures of intergenerational mobility, both in incomes and in years of schooling. The HOI is highly correlated with the Human Development Index, and its internal measure of inequality of opportunity yields very different country rankings from the IEO measure. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17150436/inequality-opportunity-income-inequality-economic-mobility-some-international-comparisons | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12193 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6304 | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo | |
dc.subject | ABSOLUTE ADVANTAGE | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO SERVICES | |
dc.subject | BETWEEN-GROUP INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | CAUSE INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | COUNTERFACTUAL | |
dc.subject | CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS | |
dc.subject | DATA SETS | |
dc.subject | DECOMPOSABLE INCOME INEQUALITY MEASURES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT POLICY | |
dc.subject | DISCRIMINATION | |
dc.subject | DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME | |
dc.subject | DISTRIBUTIONAL OUTCOMES | |
dc.subject | ECONOMETRICS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC ANALYSIS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC POLICY | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC REVIEW | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC STUDIES | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC SURVEYS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC THEORY | |
dc.subject | ECONOMICS LITERATURE | |
dc.subject | EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | |
dc.subject | ELASTICITY OF POVERTY | |
dc.subject | EMPIRICAL APPROACHES | |
dc.subject | EMPIRICAL LITERATURE | |
dc.subject | EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIP | |
dc.subject | EQUAL ACCESS | |
dc.subject | ETHNIC GROUP | |
dc.subject | EX-ANTE INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | EXCHANGE RATES | |
dc.subject | EXOGENOUS FACTORS | |
dc.subject | FUNCTIONAL FORM | |
dc.subject | GDP | |
dc.subject | GDP PER CAPITA | |
dc.subject | GINI COEFFICIENT | |
dc.subject | GNP | |
dc.subject | GNP PER CAPITA | |
dc.subject | GROSS INCOME | |
dc.subject | GROWTH ELASTICITY | |
dc.subject | HBS | |
dc.subject | HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE | |
dc.subject | HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION | |
dc.subject | HUMAN CAPITAL | |
dc.subject | INCOME | |
dc.subject | INCOME COMPONENTS | |
dc.subject | INCOME DIFFERENCES | |
dc.subject | INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS | |
dc.subject | INCOME ELASTICITY | |
dc.subject | INCOME INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | INCOME SOURCES | |
dc.subject | INCOMES | |
dc.subject | INCREASING RETURNS | |
dc.subject | INDEX OF INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | INDIVIDUAL INCOMES | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITIES IN INCOME | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY AVERSION | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY INDEX | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY LEVELS | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY MEASURE | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY MEASURES | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY | |
dc.subject | INHERITANCE | |
dc.subject | INTERGENERATIONAL EARNINGS ELASTICITY | |
dc.subject | INTERGENERATIONAL EARNINGS MOBILITY | |
dc.subject | INTERGENERATIONAL ELASTICITY | |
dc.subject | INTERGENERATIONAL ELASTICITY OF EARNINGS | |
dc.subject | INTERGENERATIONAL INCOME MOBILITY | |
dc.subject | INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY | |
dc.subject | INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS | |
dc.subject | INVERTED-U RELATIONSHIP | |
dc.subject | LABOR FORCE | |
dc.subject | LABOR INCOME | |
dc.subject | LABOR MARKET | |
dc.subject | LIFE EXPECTANCY | |
dc.subject | LINEAR RELATIONSHIP | |
dc.subject | MEAN INCOME | |
dc.subject | MEAN LOG DEVIATION | |
dc.subject | MEAN VALUE | |
dc.subject | MEASURE OF INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | MEASUREMENT ERROR | |
dc.subject | MEASURES OF INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | MEASURING INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL INCOME | |
dc.subject | NEGATIVE CORRELATION | |
dc.subject | NORMATIVE ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | NUMERICAL VALUE | |
dc.subject | OLIGARCHY | |
dc.subject | OPPORTUNITY SET | |
dc.subject | OPPORTUNITY SETS | |
dc.subject | OUTPUT PER CAPITA | |
dc.subject | OVERALL INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION | |
dc.subject | PER CAPITA INCOME | |
dc.subject | PER CAPITA INCOME LEVELS | |
dc.subject | PER CAPITA INCOMES | |
dc.subject | PERMANENT INCOME | |
dc.subject | POLICY DISCUSSIONS | |
dc.subject | POLICY RESEARCH | |
dc.subject | POLICY VARIABLES | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL CHANNELS | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL ECONOMY | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL INEQUALITIES | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL INFLUENCE | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL POWER | |
dc.subject | POOR | |
dc.subject | POPULATION SHARE | |
dc.subject | POSITIVE CORRELATION | |
dc.subject | POVERTY REDUCTION | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC GOODS | |
dc.subject | SANITATION | |
dc.subject | SKILLED LABOR | |
dc.subject | SOCIAL MOBILITY | |
dc.subject | TOTAL INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES | |
dc.subject | VALUATION | |
dc.subject | WAGES | |
dc.subject | WEALTH | |
dc.subject | WELFARE ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | WELFARE INDICATORS | |
dc.subject | WELL-BEING | |
dc.subject | WELLBEING | |
dc.title | Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility : Some International Comparisons | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.date.disclosure | 2013-01-01 | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17150436/inequality-opportunity-income-inequality-economic-mobility-some-international-comparisons | |
okr.globalpractice | Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management | |
okr.globalpractice | Poverty | |
okr.identifier.doi | 10.1596/1813-9450-6304 | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000158349_20130107095623 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 17150436 | |
okr.identifier.report | WPS6304 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2013/01/07/000158349_20130107095623/Rendered/PDF/wps6304.pdf | en |
okr.sector | Health and other social services :: Other social services | |
okr.theme | Social dev/gender/inclusion :: Participation and civic engagement | |
okr.theme | Social protection and risk management :: Poverty strategy, analysis and monitoring | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction :: Poverty Impact Evaluation | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction :: Equity and Development | |
okr.topic | Services and Transfers to Poor | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction :: Inequality | |
okr.topic | Economic Theory and Research | |
okr.topic | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | |
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