Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity

DOI10.1007/S00355-016-0985-9MaRDI QIDQ682483zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

inequality of opportunityspouse income

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15)

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

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• Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons
• Gender and inequality of opportunity in Sweden

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