Opportunity, Mobility and Inequality

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Development Economics at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Deputy Director of Centre for Globalisation Research, at QMUL. She specialises in the economics of growth and development, measurement of inequality and poverty and applied econometrics.Juan Gabriel Rodríguez is Professor of Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and member of EQUALITAS, ICAE and CEDESOG. His fields of research are inequality, equality of opportunity, economic growth, and social welfare.

• Introduction; Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Chapter 1. Intergenerational mobility in Chile: A year-to-year analysis of a national cohort of students; Francisco Meneses and Kenzo Asahi Chapter 2. Focused inequality and wellbeing measurement for public policy initiatives: Equalizing opportunity and levelling up, A Spanish Example; Gordon J. Anderson Chapter 3. Non-linear decomposition of Inequality of opportunity among the young on the Labour market in Cameroon: Evidences from spatial comparative Analysis; Romus Noufelie, Cosmas Bernard Meka'a, and Astride Claudel Njiepue Nouffeussie Chapter 4. The effect of collective bargaining agreements on employees’ welfare at the firm level: Evidence from Spain; Fernando Pinto and Raquel Sebastián Lago Chapter 5. Choosing a job: Who influences you the most, parents or friends?; Pablo De la Vega Suárez, Juan Prieto-Rodriguez, and Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Chapter 6. Adult health and inequality of opportunity in Spain; David Pérez-Mesa and Ángel S. Marrero Chapter 7. Income inequality in Russia: Is the Kuznets curve a valid hypothesis?; Inna Skriabina