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Working Paper 2015-365 Abstract This paper makes new estimates of global poverty and inequality in 2012 using both `old’, 2005

Working Paper 2015-364 Abstract Does the way scholars measure inequality of opportunity correspond to how people perceive it? To answer

Working Paper 2015-363 Abstract Whether the poor are helped or hurt by taxes and transfers is generally determined by comparing

Working Paper 2015-362 Abstract When economic growth (or economic decline) takes place, who benefits and who is hurt how much?

Working Paper 2015-361 Abstract When measuring poverty with counting measures, it is worth inquiring into the conditions prompting poverty reduction

Working Paper 2015-360 Abstract In the context of the binomial decomposition of OWA functions, we investigate the parametric constraints associated

Working Paper 2015-359 Abstract Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of

Working Paper 2015-358 Abstract We use top income data and the newly developed regime switching Gaussian mixture vector autoregressive model

Working Paper 2015-357 Abstract We propose a structural model to estimate inequality of opportunity (IOp) among workers and to distinguish

Working Paper 2015-356 Abstract We estimate structural quantile treatment effects to analyze the relationship between household income and sorting into

Working Paper 2015-355 Abstract We analyse the effect of globalisation on the incidence of in-work poverty in advanced European countries.