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Measuring and implementing equality of opportunity for income

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Vito Peragine ()

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Departing from the welfarist tradition, recent theories of justice focus on individual opportunities as the appropriate standard for distributive judgments. To explore how this philosophical conception can be translated into concrete public policy, we select the income as relevant outcome and the income tax as the relevant redistributive policy, and we address the following questions: (i) what is the degree of opportunity inequality in an income distribution? (ii) how to design an opportunity egalitarian income tax policy? Several criteria for ranking income distributions on the basis of equality of opportunities are derived. Moreover, we characterize an opportunity egalitarian income tax and we formulate criteria for choosing among alternative tax schedules. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004

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Volume (Year): 22 (2004)
Issue (Month): 1 (02)
Pages: 187-210
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  1. Laura Serlenga & Vito Peragine, 2007. "Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy," Working Papers 79, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Daniele Checchi & Vitorocco Peragine, 2005. "Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy," IZA Discussion Papers 1874, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  3. Marc Fleurbaey, 2006. "Health, equity and social welfare," Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, ADRES, issue 83-84, pages 02, Juillet-D. [Downloadable!]
  4. Vito Peragine, 2004. "Ranking Income Distributions According to Equality of Opportunity," Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer, vol. 2(1), pages 11-30, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Vitorocco Peragine, . "Responsibility Compensation and Income Distribution," Discussion Papers 98/13, Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]
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