Regional ex-ante inequality of opportunity in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Inês Barros de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/31970
• topic: Inequality of opportunity; Social justice; Circumstances; Measure inequality; Inequality regional differences; Desigualdade de oportunidade; Justiça social; Circunstâncias; Medição da desigualdade; Desigualdades regionais; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Inequality of opportunity is a concept related to the part of inequality that exists due to circumstances beyond the control of the individual and should be considered as ethically offensive (non-acceptable). Factors such as gender, race and family background, that people cannot change through effort, should not affect individual outcome. In this sense, public policies should be designed and implemented in order to reduce the outcome inequalities that arise from unequal opportunities. This dissertation focuses on studying the impact on net income in Portugal caused by inequality of opportunity and identifying regional differences based on different degrees of urbanization. This research could be an important contribution to this field of study because although the concept of IOp has already been discussed by different authors, it hasn’t been deeply analyzed in Portugal, especially at a regional level. With the results achieved, it will be possible to identify what could be done in terms of public action to mitigate the impact of these uneven circumstances, since the conception of equality of opportunity is related to social justice.