Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
By P. Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, V. Peragine. Social Science Research Network, 2013
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Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and intergenerational mobility. The analysis finds evidence of a "Kuznets curve" for inequality of opportunity, and finds that the IEO index is positively correlated with overall income inequality, and negatively with measures of intergenerational mobility, both in incomes and in years of schooling. The HOI is highly correlated with the Human Development Index, and its internal measure of inequality of opportunity yields very different country rankings from the IEO measure.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (2016, methodology): “Brunori, Ferreira, and Peragine (2013) compute a version of the human-opportu-nity index for this measure using a set of thir-ty-nine countries.”
- Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies (2015, background): “Indeed, the higher the inequality of opportunity, the greater the persistence in income inequality from one generation to the next (Brunori, Ferreira, and Peragine 2013).29 27 Efforts are under way to incorporate inequality in longevity and unemployment across educational groups.”