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Working Paper 2020-511 Abstract I provide lower and upper bound estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) for 24 European countries,

Working Paper 2020-510 Abstract Economic insecurity has attracted growing attention in social, academic and policy circles. However, there is no

Working Paper 2019-509 Abstract Taxation and public spending are key policy levers the state has in its power to change

Working Paper 2019-508 Abstract This paper provides evidence that attitudes towards redistribution are associated with the extent of generosity of

Working Paper 2019-507 Abstract There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes

Working Paper 2019-506 Abstract The literature has typically found that socio-economic factors (age, education, income, labor status, household structure) are

Working Paper 2019-505 Abstract This paper extends previous work on income-weighted measures of distributional change by defining in a unified

Working Paper 2019-504 Abstract Using a rich longitudinal dataset built by merging administrative and survey data, this article contributes to

Working Paper 2019-503 Abstract Authors: Osnat Peled, Jacques Silber. Keywords: Dissimilarity, segregation, inequality, majorization, Zonotopes, axiomatic. JEL: D63, J71, J62,

Working Paper 2019-502 Abstract The analysis of many economic phenomena requires partitioning societies into groups, Authors: Francesco Andreoli, Claudio Zoli.

Working Paper 2019-501 Abstract A fundamental unsolved question in economics is whether inequality is good or bad for growth. We