and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality …

-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it … can be concluded that both taxes and transfers reduce inequality of opportunities, with social benefits typically playing … the key role. Furthermore, the equalizing impacts of the tax benefit system on inequality of opportunity differ …

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-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 …