DECENTRALIZING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Calsamiglia, Caterina
署名单位：
Autonomous University of Barcelona
刊物名称：
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0020-6598
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00530.x
发表日期：
2009
页码：
273-290
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摘要：
In a global justice problem, equality of opportunity is satisfied if individual well-being is independent of exogenous irrelevant characteristics. Policymakers, however, address questions involving local justice problems. We interpret a collection of local justice problems as the decentralized global justice problem. We show that controlling for effort locally, which is not required by the global justice objective, is sufficient for decentralizing equality of opportunity. Moreover, under some conditions, equalizing rewards to effort is not only sufficient but necessary. This implies in particular that most affirmative action policies may not contribute to providing equality of opportunity.
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