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Working Paper 2018-479 Abstract In this article, we study the link between the functional and personal distribution of income, focusing

Working Paper 2018-478 Abstract An extensive literature on poverty traps suggests that high levels of poverty deter growth. However, a

Working Paper 2018-477 Abstract This paper contributes to the literature on neighborhood inequality along both theoretical and empirical lines. We

Working Paper 2018-476 Abstract We propose a social welfare function to evaluate a profile of income streams and compare the

Working Paper 2018-475 Abstract Do survey respondents misreport their income? If so, how does misreporting correlate Authors: Sean Higgins, Nora

Working Paper 2018-474 Abstract Inequality of opportunity builds upon the distinction between fair inequality related Authors: Niaz Asadullah, Alain Trannoy,

Working Paper 2018-473 Abstract The paper provides insights of significant practical relevance into the nature of empirical income distri-bution data,

Working Paper 2018-472 Abstract We propose a subgroup decomposable class of income mobility measures with good axiomatic properties by adapting

Working Paper 2018-471 Abstract We use data from the World Wealth & Income Database, the European Values Surveys and World

Working Paper 2018-470 Abstract Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute

Working Paper 2018-469 Abstract In this paper I study Finnish top incomes from a gender perspective using the Finnish register-based