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Working Paper 2020-542 Abstract Authors: Benoit Decerf , Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Daniel G. Mahler, Olivier Sterck. Keywords: Covid-19; welfare;

Working Paper 2020-541 Abstract The question of who benefits from economic growth is most commonly assessed by using anonymous data

Working Paper 2020-540 Abstract We analyze the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88-2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into

Working Paper 2020-539 Abstract Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional countries.

Working Paper 2020-538 Abstract This paper rigorously demonstrates that for any unequal income distribution, the well-known Gini index of inequality

Working Paper 2020-537 Abstract This paper estimates the contribution of intergenerational transfers (inheritances and gifts) and socioeconomic background to wealth

Working Paper 2020-532 Abstract Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it

Working Paper 2020-536 Abstract Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare.

Working Paper 2020-535 Abstract Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions.

Working Paper 2020-534 Abstract Is the relationship between inequality of opportunity (IOp) and economic growth different from the relationship between

Working Paper 2020-533 Abstract The concentration of different social groups in certain occupations creates and perpetuates inequalities inside and outside