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Working Paper 2017-437 Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse to what extent the previous status of children

Working Paper 2017-436 Abstract The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the behaviour of income inequality

Working Paper 2017-435 Abstract As normally measured, “global inequality” is the relative inequality of incomes found among all people in

Working Paper 2017-434 Abstract Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is

Working Paper 2017-433 Abstract The high inequality in China has been a focus of interest for policy makers and researchers.

Working Paper 2017-432 Abstract Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures

Working Paper 2017-431 Abstract We focus on a question that has been long addressed in economics, namely, of one distribution

Working Paper 2017-430 Abstract In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls’ Theory of Justice as Fairness by

Working Paper 2017-429 Abstract Questions about the adequacy of the official poverty measure led to the development of the Supplemental

Working Paper 2017-428 Abstract Current policy discussion focuses primarily on the power of fiscal policy to reduce inequality. Yet, comparable

Working Paper 2017-427 Abstract Traditional analyses of redistributive effects of the tax-benefit system are rooted in the concepts of relative