经济增长与机会平等

Economic Growth and Equality of Opportunity

World Bank Economic Review · 2013
被引 38
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

将不平等与增长关系的分析从最终成就转向机会空间,提出机会增长发生率曲线框架,并用意大利和巴西的数据展示增长对机会不平等的影响。

Abstract

In this paper, we argue that a better understanding of the relationship between inequality and economic growth can be obtained by shifting the analysis from the space of final achievements to the space of opportunities. To this end, we introduce a formal framework based on the concept of the Opportunity Growth Incidence Curve. This framework can be used to evaluate the income dynamics of specific groups of the population and to infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity over time. We show the relevance of the introduced framework by providing two empirical analyses, one for Italy and the other for Brazil. These analyses show the distributional impact of the recent growth experienced by Brazil and the recent crisis suffered by Italy from both the income inequality and opportunity inequality perspectives.

经济增长机会不平等机会增长发生率曲线意大利巴西