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Working Paper 2011-236 Abstract Social evaluation functions used in policy impact analysis can be viewed as real-valued functionals of the

Working Paper 2011-235 Abstract This paper aims at evaluating the effect of the current economic crisis on household income and

Working Paper 2011-234 Abstract Education is a main player in social mobility, however, it remains unclear through which channel the

Working Paper 2011-233 Abstract Authors: Ismael Ahamdanech-Zarco, John A. Bishop , Andrew Grodner, Haiyong Liu . Keywords: poverty, equivalence scales,

Working Paper 2011-232 Abstract In this paper we argue that a better understanding of the relationship between inequality and growth

Working Paper 2011-231 Abstract The goal of this study was to use census information to measure the level of occupational

Working Paper 2011-230 Abstract Authors: Marek Kosny . Keywords: growth pattern, income distribution, pro-poor growth, relative affluence JEL: J31, C46.

Working Paper 2011-229 Abstract This article estimates poverty persistence over an individual’s lifetime, using two definitions: income poverty and a

Working Paper 2011-228 Abstract Authors: Joachim Merz , Tim Rathjen . Keywords: Intensity of time and income poverty, interdependent multidimensional

Working Paper 2011-227 Abstract Authors: Nora Lustig. Keywords: fiscal incidence, fiscal policy, inequality, poverty, redistribution, social policy, taxes, transfers; Latin

Working Paper 2011-226 Abstract This paper introduces a new Lorenz dominance criterion that allows ranking income distributions according to ray-invariant