Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity

DOI10.1007/S00355-016-0985-9zbMATH Open1392.91085OpenAlexW2229586182MaRDI QIDQ682483FDOQ682483

Authors: Andreas Peichl, Martin Ungerer 

Publication date: 2 February 2018

Published in: Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.518958.de/diw_sp0797.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

inequality of opportunityspouse income

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15)

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• The Class of Additively Decomposable Inequality Measures
• Path independent inequality measures.
• Three solutions for the compensation problem
• Fair social orderings

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• Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons
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