Global Inequality of Opportunity : How Much of Our Income Is Determined By Where We Live?

Milanovic, Branko

MIT Press

关键词: global inequality;    income distribution;    inequality of opportunity;   

DOI  :  10.1162/REST_a_00432

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics over which they have (almost) no control: country of residence and income distribution within that country. Assume further that there is no migration. We show that more than one-half of variability in income of world population classified according to their household per capita in one-percent income groups (by country) is accounted for by these two characteristics. The role of effort or luck cannot play a large role in explaining global distribution of income.