| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP10542
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| DP10542 Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity |
| Ravi Kanbur; Joseph Stiglitz
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| 发表日期 | 2015-04-12
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on inequality of outcomes in a ?snapshot.? Intergenerational mobility and ?equality of opportunity?, so the argument goes, is what matters for normative evaluation. In response to this counter, we ask what pattern of intergenerational mobility leads to lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn relate to commonly held views on what constitutes equality of opportunity? We revive and revisit here our earlier contributions which were in the form of working papers (Kanbur and Stiglitz (1982, 1986) in order to engage with the current debate. Focusing on bistochastic transition matrices in order to hold constant the steady state snapshot income distribution, we develop an explicit partial ordering which ranks matrices on the criterion of inequality between infinitely lived dynasties. A general interpretation of our result is that when comparing two transition matrices, if one matrix is ?further away? from the identity matrix then it will lead to lower dynastic inequality. More specifically, the result presents a computational procedure to check if one matrix dominates another on dynastic inequality. We can also assess ?equality of opportunity?, defined as identical prospects irrespective of starting position. We find that this is not necessarily the mobility pattern which minimizes dynastic inequality. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
; Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Dynastic inequality
Equality of opportunity
Inequality
Mobility
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10542
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539374
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Ravi Kanbur,Joseph Stiglitz. DP10542 Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity. 2015.
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