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Working Paper 2012-264 Abstract We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and

Working Paper 2012-263 Abstract How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes? How progressive are revenue collection

Working Paper 2012-262 Abstract In this paper we study intra-generational income mobility in European countries over the years shortly preceding

Working Paper 2012-261 Abstract We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational

Working Paper 2012-260 Abstract In this paper, we survey the literature that studies the issue of growing inequalities in advanced

Working Paper 2012-259 Abstract We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these

Working Paper 2012-258 Abstract We review the literature on the links between inequality, growth and welfare. Three questions are addressed:

Working Paper 2012-257 Abstract A natural concern with multivariate poverty measures, as well as with other composite indices, is the

Working Paper 2012-256 Abstract We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly

Working Paper 2012-255 Abstract Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered

Working Paper 2012-254 Abstract We introduce and characterize axiomatically a diversity criterion, capturing individual dissimilarity as ‘revealed’ by the different