Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco; Lugo, Maria Ana; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity - one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …