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OPPORTUNITY, MOBILITY AND INEQUALITY

RESEARCH ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Series Editors: Juan Gabriel Rodríguez and Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

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RESEARCH ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY – VOLUME 31

OPPORTUNITY, MOBILITY AND INEQUALITY

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SANGHAMITRA BANDYOPADHYAY

Queen Mary University of London, UK

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JUAN GABRIEL RODRÍGUEZ

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Development Economics and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research. She specializes in the economics of growth and development, measurement of inequality and poverty and applied econometrics. She has held previous academic appointments at the University of Oxford, University of Birmingham and the London School of Economics. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. She has been a Visiting Professor/Visiting Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics and Cornell University (2015), and is currently Visiting Professor at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. In addition to editing Research on Economic Inequality, she is also Co-Editor for the Review of Development Economics, and is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-9599

Juan Gabriel Rodríguez is Full Professor of Economics in the Department of Economic Analysis at the Complutense University of Madrid and Member of the research groups ICAE, EQUALITAS and CEDESOG. He has participated in projects funded by the La Caixa, BBVA, Ramón Areces, and COTEC Foundations, and different Spanish Public Administrations at the National and Regional levels. Between 2008 and 2010, he was Deputy Assistant Director General of the Institute of Fiscal Studies (Ministry of Finance). He has published scientific articles in journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Development Economics, European Economic Review, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scientometrics, Regional Studies, Journal of Economic Inequality, Economic Letters, Social Choice and Welfare, Review of Income and Wealth, and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Yale University, the World Bank, Brown University, East Carolina University, Oxford University and Laval University. He is currently co-editor of the Research on Economic Inequality series. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0256-8789

Gordon J. Anderson is an Applied Econometrician, a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and Journal of Applied Econometrics Distinguished Author. He works on wellbeing, inequality and poverty measurement in the fields of health, human resources and incomes and has published over 60 refereed articles and books on those topics.

Kenzo Asahi is an Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC-Chile) School of Government. He is a Principal Investigator at the Millennium Nucleus in Intergenerational Mobility (MOVI) and an Investigator at the Centre for Sustainable Development (CEDEUS). His research lies at the intersection of urban and labour economics, examining how urban policies, such as regulations and transport investments, affect the human and economic development of city dwellers. He holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Master’s degree in Research in Economics from University College London, a Master’s in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University, and both a Master’s and a Bachelor’s in Engineering from PUC-Chile. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7838-4647

Raquel Sebastian, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ICAE and EQUALITAS, Spain. Raquel Sebastian is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and member of ICAE and EQUALITAS. She holds a PhD in Economics from University of Salamanca where she has been a Marie Curie Fellow. She has been Visiting Researcher at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (Oxford University), the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) in Dublin, and the Central European Labour Studies Institute in Bratislava. She has worked on projects for several governments and international organizations, including the European Commission, and the International Organization for Migration. Her fields of research are employment, structural change and inequality. She has also published book chapters in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Editorial Springer). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4420-7604

Ángel S. Marrero is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of La Laguna (ULL). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from ULL. His work has focused on two research areas: discrete choice models applied to transport demand and the revision of convergence hypotheses under economic growth theory. Currently, his main focus is studying inequality of opportunities in education. This research has resulted in the publication of several papers included in the Journal Citation Report (JCR), including Review of Income and Wealth, Transportation Research Part A, Energy Economics, and Energy Policy. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0093-9571

Cosmas Bernard Meka’a is Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management (FSEG) at the University of Bertoua. He is a senior researcher at the Research Centre on Innovation, Institutions and Inclusive Development. He is the author and co-author of numerous scientific articles published in international journals as such as Travail & Emploi, Région et Développement, Revue d’économie du développement, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Renewable Energy, Heliyon. Its areas of research include labour economics, migration, gender, inequality, digitization, environmental economics and human capital. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Cameroon Management Review of the Advanced School of Economics and Commerce at the University of Douala. He is also co-founder and Chairman of the Microeconomics of Development Laboratory. Finally, he is the PhD thesis director of Romus Noufelie and Astride Claudel Njiepue-Nouffeussie

Francisco Meneses is the Director of Corporate Finance at Banco Estado in Chile. He is an Investigator at the Millennium Nucleus in Intergenerational Mobility (MOVI) and an Investigator at the Centre for Sustainable Development (CEDEUS). He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Duke University, a Master’s in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University, Master in Arts in Agriculture and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A in Business and Economics from PUC-Chile.

Romus Noufelie is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Ngaoundéré-Cameroun, working on the economics of migration and inequality and that of energy and technology. He has published in journals such as Renewable Energy, African Scientific Journal and Helivon Review. He has also taught at Cameroon’s Institute of Social Sciences. https://orcid.org/00000002-2269-0888

Astride Claudel Njiepue Nouffeussie is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Douala-Cameroon, where he is due to defend a thesis on the Effects of social capital on the labour market in Cameroon before the end of 2024. He holds a Research Master’s thesis in Economic Policy and Development from the same University. He is tutorial instructor at the FSEG of University of Bertoua. He has co-authored several scientific articles published in international journals such as Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Heliyon review. His areas of research include labour economic, digitization, industrial economy, inequality, energy and accommodation. He has familiarised himself with data analysis using STATA, SPSS and R software. He has also taken part in several international conferences, including the 1st Euro-African conference organised by the University of Tours (France), the Conference on the Digitisation Economy 2023 organised by CESifo (Germany) and ICDE 2024 organised by AFEDEV (France). He is also a member of several learned societies including, Microeconomics of Development Laboratory, AFEDEV, ERMA, RCIIID, Econometric Society and Cameroonian Economic Society. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-8078

David Pérez-Mesa is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Center of Social Inequality and Governance (CEDESOG) at the University of La Laguna (ULL). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from ULL. His research focuses on the areas of Health Economics and Development Economics, in particular on the analysis of health determinants and health inequality in both children and adults, as well as on the study of inequality of opportunity in health. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2454-2990

Fernando Pinto, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, EQUALITAS, Spain. Fernando Pinto is a Professor and Researcher in the Department of Business Economics, Applied Economics II, and Fundamentals of Economic Analysis at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. He holds a PhD in Economics and a Master’s in Economic Analysis of Law and Public Policies from the University of Salamanca. His main research areas are labour economics and public economics. He has conducted research visits, among others, at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom) and the Department of Economics at San Diego State University (San Diego, California, United States). Additionally, he has participated as a speaker in numerous national and international conferences and seminars within his field of study. Additionally, he has participated as a speaker in numerous national and international conferences and seminars within his field of study. He has also published book chapters in prestigious editorials such as Thomson Reuters and Edward Elgar. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1525-3206

Juan Prieto-Rodriguez is Full Professor of Economics at the Oviedo School of Economics and Business (at the University of Oviedo), one of the seven Spanish Business schools accredited by the AACSB. He has coordinated and been member of projects of the Spanish National Research Plans or EU programs. He has published articles in Spanish and international peer-reviewed journals such as Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Sport Economics, Kyklos, Marketing Science, Transportation Research Parts A and D and Transport Policy. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Portsmouth and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He has been the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) for more than 10 years and the Coordinator of PUCK, a multinational project fund by the European Union. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9163-3011

Inna Skriabina did her Bachelor’s degree in Commerce in the MGIMO University in Moscow, Russia, and her Master’s degree in Sustainable Development in St Andrews University in Scotland, UK. Later she moved to Spain to continue her academic pursuit and to focus on the research in income inequality and economic development. She earned her PhD degree in Economics in the Complutense University in Madrid in 2020. Her thesis ‘Opportunity, Inequality and Growth: The Case of Russia’ was directed by Professor Juan Gabriel Rodríguez. Currently she works in management and finance in fine dining and hospitality business in Spain.

Pablo De la Vega Suárez holds a Degree in Economics from the University of Oviedo and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has worked as teaching and research staff at the latter university for several years. He currently works for Next Educación, as coordinator of master’s programs. He has published in international journals in the fields of inequality and cultural economics. He has developed part of his work in the field of network economies, applying techniques and new approaches to the existing literature.