Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity

Roland Benabou () and Efe Ok

Working Papers from Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School - Public and International Affairs

Abstract: Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory of progressive taxation.

Keywords: INCOME DISTRIBUTION; TAXATION; SOCIAL WELFARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 H20 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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