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Working Paper 2024-669 Abstract This paper shows the power of applying Shannon’s (1948) information theory perspective to inequality measurement by

Working Paper 2024-668 Abstract This paper analyzes the relation between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting for

Working Paper 2024-667 Abstract This paper adopts a novel copula-based technique to measure multidimensional dependence among facets of cumulative deprivation

Working Paper 2024-666 Abstract I extend recent research that defines the middle class using a vulnerability threshold by introducing a

Working Paper 2024-665 Abstract We investigate the impact of a change in the gender composition of the pool of candidates

Working Paper 2024-664 Abstract We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40

Working Paper 2024-663 Abstract This paper investigates whether the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany has led to

Working Paper 2024-662 Abstract To mitigate the spread of COVID-19, from March 2020 worldwide were adopted a series of policy

Working Paper 2023-661 Abstract Using the Understanding Society data (UKHLS and COVID-19 surveys), first this work uses the models that

Working Paper 2023-660 Abstract We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the

Working Paper 2023-659 Abstract Wealth surveys tend to underestimate wealth concentration at the top due to the missing rich problem.