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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

Working Paper 2020-531 Abstract Additive social evaluation measures have been proposed and are commonly used to assess well-being with an

Working Paper 2020-530 Abstract Are lower levels of support for redistribution in the United States compared to Western Eu- Authors:

Working Paper 2020-529 Abstract The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality

Working Paper 2020-528 Abstract This paper develops a normative approach to the measurement of ex-ante inequality of opportunity in a