Measuring inequality and welfare when some inequalities matter more than others

Marc Fleurbaey, Domenico Moramarco and Vito Peragine

No 2024-15, Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: This paper proposes a unified framework to measure inequality and social welfare in the case in which both inequalities between groups and inequalities within groups matter, but priority is recognized to the former. This novel approach can be applied to a variety of contexts, including the analysis of inequalities of opportunity, ethnic discrimination and gender disparities. The empirical part of the paper analyzes two relevant cases: (i) the evolution of income inequality and ethnic discrimination in the United States during the period 1970-2014; (ii) the comparison of four European countries - Italy, Spain, France and Germany - in terms of inequality of opportunity.

Keywords: Inequality; social welfare; horizontal inequalities; inequality of opportunity; ethnic discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 p.
Date: 2024-09
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