The paper proposes an approach to understand the relationship between inequality and economic growth obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to the space of opportunities. To this end, it introduces a formal framework based on the concept of the Opportunity Growth...

This paper analyses the effect of inherited individual circumstances such as gender, family background, foreign background and health status, on individual earnings in the EU. By using three waves of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2005, 2011, 2019) this study documents the...

In this paper, we argue that a better understanding of the relationship between inequality and economic growth can be obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to the space of opportunities. To this end, we introduce a formal framework based on the concept of the...