Equality of Opportunity

Roemer, John E.

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“…From the perspective of Intergeneration, these internal factors can be transmitted from father to son through family field. For example, Roemer (1998) thinks that parents can influence their children by investing in human capital and helping them establish social relations, which are closely related to their economic income. A large number of literatures have confirmed that there is a strong intergenerational income correlation in western developed countries (Solon, 1992;Zimmerman, 1992;Mazumder, 2001).…”

Section: Research On Intergenerational Income Transmissionmentioning

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Intergenerational Transmission, Self-Effort and Income Gap between Urban and Rural Youth in China

Jiang¹,

Philip²

2021

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Based on the data of China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) from 1991 to 2015, the effects of intergenerational income transmission and self-effort on the income gap between urban and rural youth under different quantiles were studied by using RIF's unconditional quantile regression and distribution decomposition method. The results show that the parents' income has a significant impact on the income of urban and rural youth in each quantile, and it is the main driving force to widen the income gap. By decomposing the intergenerational income elasticity, it is found that the intergenerational income of urban youth is mainly transmitted through education, while the rural youth is more reflected in the path of career transmission. Hard work has a strong impact on the income of urban and rural youth only in the middle and low quantiles, and the effect of rural youth is greater than that of urban youth. Hard work can reduce the income gap between urban and rural youth in the middle and low quantiles, but at the cost of "reverse discrimination" against rural youth.

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“…According to Roemer (1998) and Bourguignon et al (2007), hypothesized that the external environmental variables and responsible effort variables are the determinants of urban and rural youth income. The income equation is set as follows:…”

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Intergenerational Transmission, Self-Effort and Income Gap between Urban and Rural Youth in China

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Philip²

2021

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“…Finally, the fact that many of the inequalities one observes in the developing world are inherited from one's parents may make them ethically objectionable. Differences associated with circumstances over which individuals have no control (such as race, gender, or family background) often are regarded as "inequality of opportunity," which the state has a moral obligation to redress (see Roemer [1998] and Bourguignon, Ferreira, and Walton [2007]). Cash transfers might be suitable instruments for compensating families who suffer from inherited disadvantage.…”

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Conditional Cash Transfers

2021

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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“…A proper notion of D-exploitation should then be formulated not in terms of ordinary working behavior but in terms of a deeper notion of effort that takes account of the circumstances. Roemer's (1998) suggestion to measure effort as one's position in the distribution of people with similar circumstances is precisely meant to go in this direction.…”

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The facets of exploitation

Fleurbaey

2014

Journal of Theoretical Politics

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This paper proposes four concepts of exploitation that encapsulate common uses of the word in social interactions: unfair advantage, unequal exchange, using persons as means, and free-riding. It briefly discusses how these concepts appear in the literature (the first two are prominent in Roemer’s classical work), and then examines how these forms of exploitation are related and how they can occur.

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Equality of Opportunity

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Intergenerational Transmission, Self-Effort and Income Gap between Urban and Rural Youth in China

Intergenerational Transmission, Self-Effort and Income Gap between Urban and Rural Youth in China

Conditional Cash Transfers

The facets of exploitation

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