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Working Paper 2022-608 Abstract In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has

Working Paper 2022-607 Abstract Little evidence exists on the adverse effects of COVID-19 on the labor market for poorer countries.

Working Paper 2022-606 Abstract We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their

Working Paper 2022-605 Abstract This paper proposes a graphical tool based on the copula function, namely the mul-tivariate tail concentration

Working Paper 2022-604 Abstract This paper discusses the recent literature on the identification and aggregation of cumulative deprivation. Individuals who

Working Paper 2022-603 Abstract This paper analyzes how material deprivation responds to drastic changes in unemployment levels. We explore unemployment

Working Paper 2022-602 Abstract Numerous non-pecuniary variables of interest for inequality assessment are bounded and often represented in terms of

Working Paper 2022-601 Abstract The Kakwani index of progressivity is commonly used to establish whether the effect of a specific

Working Paper 2022-600 Abstract We use data from the COME-HERE panel survey collected by the University of Luxembourg to assess

Working Paper 2022-599 Abstract This paper analyzes how the different mechanisms proposed to explain the inequality-growth relation are affected by

Working Paper 2022-598 Abstract This paper explores the evolution of inequality of opportunity in the prevalence ofchronic diseases along the