Mobility as progressivity ranking income processes according to equality of opportunity

Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory of pr...

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Main Authors:	Benabou, Roland (Author), Ok, Efe A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.
Series:	NBER working paper series no.8431
Subjects:	Occupational mobility > Econometric models. Income distribution > Econometric models.
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