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Inequality of opportunity, a matter of space?

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Inequality has become a very important issue in developed countries in the last decades. Among the different definitions of inequality, inequality of opportunity stands out as one of the main topics. At what extent are personal circumstances out of control the root of unequal outcomes? Space, defined as the place where people live, can constrain the set of opportunities that people face or, even, people with the same personal circumstances, excepting region, and the same set of opportunities can obtain very different outcomes depending on the region. This issue is measured in Spain by using the 2011 EU‐SILC microdata. La desigualdad se ha convertido en un problema muy importante en los países desarrollados en las últimas décadas. Entre las diferentes definiciones de desigualdad, la desigualdad de oportunidades se destaca como uno de los aspectos principales. ¿En qué medida las circunstancias personales que no se pueden controlar son la raíz de resultados de desigualdad? El espacio, definido como el lugar donde viven las personas, puede limitar el abanico de oportunidades de las personas o, incluso, de personas con las mismas circunstancias personales, excepto la región, y el mismo abanico de oportunidades pueden ofrecer resultados muy diferentes dependiendo de la región. Esta cuestión se mide en España mediante el uso de microdatos de EU‐SILC 2011. この数十年間で、不平等は先進国における非常に大きな問題となった。不平等の定義は様々であるが、その中でも機会の不平等は主要な問題のひとつとして際立っている。制御することのできない個人の環境が、どのくらい不平等な結果の原因となっているのかは疑問である。空間を人が生活するところと定義すると、空間は、人が、または地域を除いて境遇が同じ人々までもが、向き合う一連の機会を制約することができ、同じ一連の機会から、地域によって大きく異なる結果を得ることができる。2011年のEUの所得・生活状況調査のマイクロデータを使用して、この問題をスペインの事例において測定する。

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  • Jesus Perez‐Mayo, 2019. "Inequality of opportunity, a matter of space?," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 11(1), pages 71-87, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:11:y:2019:i:1:p:71-87
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12181
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    1. Mariann Szabó & Zsuzsanna Banász, 2020. "SMSTs on thin ice: motivations behind migration from a Hungarian micro‐region," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(5), pages 815-831, October.
    2. Zbigniew Mogila & Patricia C. Melo & José M. Gaspar, 2022. "Estimating labour‐income‐based inequality of opportunity for a selection of EU‐SILC countries: National and urban–rural perspectives," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(5), pages 1158-1187, October.
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    4. Zulfiya Fanurovna Ibragimova & Marina Valeryevna Frants, 2020. "Inequality of Opportunities: The Role of the Spatial Factor," Spatial Economics=Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika, Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Khabarovsk, Russia), issue 4, pages 44-67.
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    6. Zbigniew Mogila & Patricia C. Melo & José M. Gaspar, 2020. "Measuring inequality of opportunity across EU-SILC countries: national and urban-rural perspectives," Working Papers REM 2020/0135, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.

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