Life chances and class: Estimating inequality of opportunity in South Africa for various life stages
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Keywords
Inequality of opportunity; Intergenerational mobility; South Africa; Middle class;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2013-04-27 (Africa)
- NEP-DEM-2013-04-27 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2013-04-27 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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