The Drivers of Income Mobility in Europe
Working Paper 2012-262 Abstract In this paper we study intra-generational income mobility in European countries over the years shortly preceding
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Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-261 Abstract We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-260 Abstract In this paper, we survey the literature that studies the issue of growing inequalities in advanced
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-259 Abstract We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-258 Abstract We review the literature on the links between inequality, growth and welfare. Three questions are addressed:
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-257 Abstract A natural concern with multivariate poverty measures, as well as with other composite indices, is the
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-256 Abstract We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-255 Abstract Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-254 Abstract We introduce and characterize axiomatically a diversity criterion, capturing individual dissimilarity as ‘revealed’ by the different
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-253 Abstract We consider the classical inequality measures due to Gini, Bonferroni, and De Vergottini and we present
Read MoreWorking Paper 2012-252 Abstract This paper develops new decompositions of the redistributive, vertical and horizontal effects of the fiscal system,
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