Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity...

Nicht erst seit der vergangenen Bundestagswahl gibt es in Deutschland eine öffentliche Diskussion, wie es hierzulande um die soziale Gerechtigkeit bestellt ist. In der Debatte wird hierbei oft auf die Entwicklung der Einkommensungleichheit rekurriert. Um die Gerechtigkeitsfrage sinnvoll zu...

Purpose – In this chapter we discuss to what extent some of the measures of inequality of opportunity (IOp hereafter) proposed in the literature meet the reward and the compensation principles. Methodology – We study the direct unfairness and fairness gap measures proposed by Fleurbaey and...

Nicht erst seit der vergangenen Bundestagswahl gibt es in Deutschland eine öffentliche Diskussion, wie es hierzulande um die soziale Gerechtigkeit bestellt ist. Ist es in der Tat »Zeit für mehr Gerechtigkeit«?1 In der breiten Debatte wird hierbei oft auf die Entwicklung der...

Estimates of the level of inequality of opportunity have traditionally been interpreted as lower bounds due to the downward bias resulting from the partial observability of circumstances that affect individual outcome. We show that such estimates may also suffer from upward bias as a consequence...

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity...