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Layers of Inequality

Unequal Opportunities and Skin Color in Mexico

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ID10429751
AuthorsLuis Monroy‐gómez‐franco (0000-0002-3178-1423, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, USA, corresponding author), Roberto Vélez-Grajales (0000-0003-2499-9771, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, Mexico City, Mexico), Gaston Yalonetzky (Leeds Universtiy, Leeds, UK), Gaston Isaias Yalonetzky (0000-0003-2438-0223)
Year2021
Volume49
Issue3
Pages230-250
Publication date2021-09-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Black Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6446 • E-ISSN: 1936-4814
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00346446211044149
OpenAlexW3136509005
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited25

We document the contribution of skin color toward quantifying inequality of opportunity over a proxy indicator of wealth. Our Ferreira–Gignoux estimates of inequality of opportunity as a share of total wealth inequality show that once parental wealth is included as a circumstance variable, the share of inequality of opportunity rises above 40%, overall and for every age cohort. By contrast, the contribution of skin tone to total inequality of opportunity remains minor throughout

Contrast (vision · Demographic economics · Economics · Inequality · Proxy (statistics · Statistics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics

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Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
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