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Working Paper 2013-300 Abstract This paper identifies a family of absolute consistent inequality indices using a weakly decomposable postulate suggested

Working Paper 2013-299 Abstract The aim of this paper is to study the ex-ante effects of the implementation of a

Working Paper 2013-298 Abstract It is well-known that Gini coefficient is influenced by granularity of measurements. When there are few

Working Paper 2013-297 Abstract A growing polarization of society accompanied with an erosion of the middle class experiences more and

Working Paper 2013-296 Abstract This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel

Working Paper 2013-295 Abstract This note presents an innovative inference procedure for assessing if a pair of distributions can be

Working Paper 2013-294 Abstract Ethnic heterogeneity can potentially be related to the occurrence of conflicts with longlasting economic effects. Two

Working Paper 2013-293 Abstract One of five workers work part-time in Europe, mainly women. This article examines the extent to

Working Paper 2013-292 Abstract Recent studies by Atkinson (2011); Rajan (2010); Kumhof and Ranciére (2010); Bordo and Meissner (2013) have

Working Paper 2013-291 Abstract We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role

Working Paper 2013-290 Abstract Neoclassical models imply convergence of the entire distribution, not just the mean income levels. In this