Opportunity and social mobility

Christopher Phelan

No 323, Staff Report from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Abstract: This study argues that both unequal opportunity and social mobility are necessary implications of an efficient societal arrangement when incentives must be provided.

Keywords: Income; distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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Published in Review of Economic Studies> (Vol. 73, No. 2, April 2006, pp. 487-504)

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