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, Chile's income distribution is, for the moment, calm. Education may be the most important variable affecting the structure … of, and changes in, inequality in Chile. After rising in the 1960s, falling in the early 1970s, and rising again from the … mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, income inequality seems to have stabilized in Chile since about 1987. With the stormy period …
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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 to differences in opportunities faced by people with...
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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...
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