Date: 21 May 2025
Time: 10:00-11:45
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online.
Research seminar with Vito Peragine, Professor of Economics at the University of Bari. His work spans the area of public economics, focusing on poverty and inequality, distributive justice, social policy and the economics of education.
Abstract
This paper proposes a unified framework to measure inequality and social welfare in the case in which both inequalities between groups and inequalities within groups matter, but priority is recognized to the former. This novel approach can be applied to a variety of contexts, including the analysis of inequalities of opportunity, ethnic discrimination and gender disparities. The empirical part of the paper analyzes two relevant cases: (i) the evolution of income inequality and ethnic discrimination in the United States during the period 1967-2018; (ii) the comparison of four European countries - Italy, Spain, France and Germany - in terms of inequality of opportunity.
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