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Measuring mobility

Frank Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire

Rising food prices and household welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008

Francisco Ferreira, Anna Fruttero, Phillippe Leite and Leonardo Lucchetti

Declining inequality in Latin America: Some economics, some politics

Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig and Darryl McLeod

Two classes of generalized deprivation indexes

Paolo Verme

The Gini index,the dual decomposition of aggregation functions, and the consistent measurement of inequality

Oihana Aristondo, José Luis García-Lapresta, Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Ricardo Alberto Marques Pereira

Spectators versus stakeholders with or without veil of ignorance: The difference it makes for justice and chosen distribution criteria

Leonardo Becchetti, Giacomo Degli Antoni, Stefania Ottone and Nazaria Solferino

An integrated approach for the measurement of inequality, poverty, and richness

Nuno Crespo, Sandrina Moreira and Nadia Simoes

Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Latin America: Evidence from PISA 2006-2009

Luis Gamboa and Fábio Waltenberg

Inequality and poverty under Latin America’s new left regimes

Darryl McLeod and Nora Lustig

The Knowledge Bank and poverty reduction

Nora Lustig

Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: What do we gain and what do we lose?

Nora Lustig

The decline in inequality in Latin America: How much, since when and why

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ). A diagnostic framework to assess governments’ fiscal policies. Handbook

Nora Lustig

The rise and fall of income inequality in Latin America

Leonardo Gasparini and Nora Lustig

The pro-poorness, growth and inequality nexus: Some findings from a simulation study

Thomas Groll and Peter J. Lambert

Tax policy and income inequality in the U.S., 1978—2009: A decomposition approach

Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Sebastian Siegloch

Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality: Theory and evidence for Germany and the US

Judith Niehues and Andreas Peichl

On the identification of the “middle class”

Anthony Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini

Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US

Andreas Peichl and Nico Pestel

A new framework of measuring inequality: Variable equivalence scales and group-specific well-being limits. Sensitivity findings for German personal income distribution 1995-2009*

Jürgen Faik

Is there a motherhood penalty? Decomposing the family wage gap in Colombia

Luis Gamboa and Blanca Zuluaga

Inequality, growth and public spending in Central, East and Southeast Europe

Mario Holzner

Poverty and the business cycle: The role of the intra-household distribution of unemployment

Luis Ayala, Olga Cantó and Juan Rodríguez

Can the longevity risk alleviate The annuitization puzzle? Empirical evidence from Dutch data

Federica Teppa

Race, poverty, and deprivation in South Africa

Carlos Gradín

Polarization, inequality and growth: The Indian experience

Sripad Motiram and Nayantara Sarma

Ray-invariant intermediate inequality measures: A Lorenz dominance criterion

Francisco Azpitarte and Olga Alonso-Villar

Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom

Nora Lustig

Intensity of time and income interdependent multidimensional poverty: Well-being and minimum 2DGAP – German evidence

Joachim Merz and Tim Rathjen

The persistence of income poverty and life-style deprivation: Evidence from Italy

Francesco Devicienti, Valentina Gualtieri and Mariacristina Rossi

Relative affluence measures and an identification of growth pattern

Marek Kosny

Occupational segregation of Afro-Latinos

Carlos Gradín

Economic growth and equality of opportunity

Vito Peragine, Flaviana Palmisano and Paolo Brunori

Subjective poverty equivalence scales for Euro Zone countries

Ismael Ahamdanech-Zarco, John A. Bishop, Andrew Grodner and Haiyong Liu

Intergenerational transmission of education - Uncovering the mechanisms behind high intergenerational correlations

Florian Wendelspiess Chávez Juárez

The impact of the crisis on unemployment and household income in Italy and Spain

Tindara Addabbo, Rosa García-Fernández, Carmen Llorca-Rodríguez and Anna Maccagnan

Influence functions for distributional statistics

B. Essama-Nssah and Peter J. Lambert

An inter-temporal relative deprivation index

Lidia Ceriani and Chiara Gigliarano

Inequality and well-being in transition economies: A non-experimental test of inequality aversion

Alexandru Cojocaru

A quality-index of poverty measures

Daniel Gottlieb and Alexander Fruman

The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity

Francisco Ferreira and Jérémie Gignoux

Inequality of opportunity for young people in Italy: Understanding the role of circumstances

Gabriella Berloffa, Francesca Modena and Paola Villa

Multidimensional poverty analysis: Looking for a middle ground

Francisco Ferreira and Maria Ana Lugo

Occupational segregation of Hispanics in U.S. metropolitan areas

Olga Alonso-Villar, Carlos Gradín and Coral del Rio Otero

The Evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil - 1987 to 2006: Differences between formal and non-formal labour markets

Paola Salardi

The North-South HOS Model, inequality and globalization

Joel Hellier

Armed conflict, household victimization, and child health in Côte d'Ivoire

Camelia Minoiu and Olga Shemyakina

Poverty measurement with ordinal variables: A generalization of a recent contribution

Gaston Yalonetzky

Measuring employment deprivation among households in the EU

Carlos Gradín, Olga Cantó and Coral del Rio Otero

On the relationship between objective and subjective inequality indices and the natural rate of subjective inequality

José María Sarabia and Francisco Azpitarte