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Working Paper 2018-466 Abstract How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question

Working Paper 2018-465 Abstract A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive ‘synthetic panel’ data estimates of poverty dynamics

Working Paper 2018-464 Abstract We build a simple model in which (i) households select their country of residence depending on

Working Paper 2018-463 Abstract It is sometimes observed and frequently assumed that top incomes in household surveys worldwide are poorly

Working Paper 2018-462 Abstract The optimal income taxation literature focuses on the tradeoff between the equity gains of higher progressivity

Working Paper 2018-461 Abstract Income comparisons are important for individual well-being. We examine the shape of the relationship between relative

Working Paper 2018-460 Abstract Despite the growing numbers of forcibly displaced persons worldwide, many people living under conflict choose not

Working Paper 2018-459 Abstract We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair

Working Paper 2018-458 Abstract This paper analyzes the role of good governance in fostering pro-poor and inclusive growth. Using a

Working Paper 2018-457 Abstract A policy intervention entails a distribution of social resources to a target population in order to

Working Paper 2018-456 Abstract We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty