Opportunity and Social Mobility

Christopher Phelan

The Review of Economic Studies, 2006, vol. 73, issue 2, 487-504

Abstract: This paper argues that both unequal opportunity and social mobility are necessary implications of an efficient societal arrangement when incentives must be provided. Copyright 2006, Wiley-Blackwell.

Date: 2006
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