Inequality of Life Chances and the Measurement of Social Immobility

Jacques Silber and Amedeo Spadaro ()
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Amedeo Spadaro: Paris School of Economics

A chapter in Social Ethics and Normative Economics, 2011, pp 129-154 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The topic of intergenerational mobility measurement has been increasingly popular among economists in recent years. For interesting surveys, see, for example, Solon (1999) and Corak (2004). In a recent article, Van de gaer et al. (2001) have made a distinction between three meanings of intergenerational mobility, stressing respectively the idea of movement, the inequality of opportunity, and the inequality of life chances.

Keywords: Social Mobility; Gini Index; Life Chance; Social Origin; Income Class (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17807-8_5

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