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Entrepreneurs and freelancers: Are they time and income multidimensional poor? The German case

Joachim Merz and Tim Rathjen

Robust ordinal inequality comparisons with Kolm-independent measures

Gaston Yalonetzky

Mobility across generations of the gender distribution of housework

J. Ignacio Giménez-Nadal, Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli

Growth elasticity of monetary and non-monetary poverty: an application to Iran

Hosnieh Mahoozi

Relative p-bipolarisation measurement with generalised means and hybrid Lorenz curves

Marek Kosny and Gaston Yalonetzky

A unified approach for measuring welfare protection under a decentralized framework

Luis Ayala and Elena Barcena-Martin

Upward and downward bias when measuring inequality of opportunity

Paolo Brunori, Vito Peragine and Laura Serlenga

Mincer earnings regression in the form of the double Pareto-lognormal model

Masato Okamoto

Equality of Opportunity: A progress report

Alain Trannoy

Vulnerability to poverty: Theory

Cesar Calvo

Assessing the impact of social transfer income packages on child poverty in European countries: Pro-child targeting vs pro-poor targeting

Elena Barcena-Martin, Carmen Blanco-Arana and Salvador Pérez-Moreno

Channels of inequality of opportunity: The role of education and occupation in Europe

Juan Palomino, Gustavo Marrero and Juan Rodríguez

Inequality convergence: How sensitive are results to the choice of data?

Nora Lustig and Daniel Teles

Poverty Accounting. A fractional response approach to poverty decomposition

Richard Bluhm, Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai

Labour outcomes and family background: Evidence from the EU during the recession

Silvia Avram and Olga Cantó

Intergenerational transmission of education in China: Pattern, mechanism, and policies

Jingyi Huang, Yumei Guo and Yang Song

The impact of taxes, transfers, and subsidies on inequality and poverty in Uganda

Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig, Astrid Haas and Sebastian Wolf

Fiscal policy, inequality and poverty in Iran: Assessing the impact and effectiveness of taxes and transfers

Ali Enami, Nora Lustig and Alireza TaqdiriAuthor-Email: at112@zips.uakron.edu

Fiscal policy, inequality and the poor in the developing world

Nora Lustig

The benchmark of maximum relative bipolarisation

Gaston Yalonetzky

The necessary requirement of median independence for relative bipolarisation measurement

Gaston Yalonetzky

An asset-based indicator of wellbeing for a unified means testing tool: Money metric or counting approach?

Martina Menon, Federico Perali and Eva Sierminska

Economic insecurity and variations in resources

Walter Bossert and Conchita D'Ambrosio

Inequality of opportunity and income inequality in Spain: An analysis over time

Ana Suárez Álvarez and Ana Jesús López Menéndez

A head-count measure of rank mobility and its directional decomposition

Walter Bossert, Burak Can and Conchita D'Ambrosio

Occupational segregation by sexual orientation in the U.S.: Exploring its economic effects on same-sex couples

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the US

Carlos Gradín

Measuring income redistribution: beyond the proportionality standard

Ivica Urban

Fiscal policy, income redistribution and poverty reduction in low and middle income countries

Nora Lustig

The economics of justice as fairness

Antonio Abatemarco and Francesca Stroffolini

Copula-based measurement of interdependence for discrete distributions

Martyna Kobus and Radoslaw Kurek

Inequality indices as tests for fairness

Ravi Kanbur and Andy Snell

The great Chinese inequality turnaround

Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang and Xiaobo Zhang

Cities, towns, and poverty: Migration equilibrium and income distribution in a Todaro-type model with multiple destinations

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

Inequality and globalization: A review essay

Martin Ravallion

Income inequality and inequality of opportunity in Europe. Are they on the rise?

Ana Suárez Álvarez and Ana Jesus Lopez Menendez

Dynamics of child poverty in the European countries

Elena Barcena-Martin, Carmen Blanco-Arana and Salvador Pérez-Moreno

Incorporating spatial price adjustments in U.S. public policy analysis

John A. Bishop, Jonathan Lee and Lester A. Zeager

Inequality of opportunity and household education expenditures: Evidence from panel data in China

Yang Song and Guangsu Zhou

Evaluating the effectiveness of the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Dibao) program in China

Nanak Kakwani, Shi Li, Xiaobing Wang and Mengbing Zhu

Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America

Esther Hauk, Mónica Oviedo and Xavi Ramos

Macroprudential policy and household wealth inequality

Jean-François Carpantier, Javier Olivera and Philippe Van Kerm

ducational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database

Guido Neidhöfer, Joaquín Serrano and Leonardo Gasparini

Equality of opportunity for well-being

Daniel Gerszon Mahler and Xavi Ramos

Some axiomatics of inequality measurement, with specific reference to intermediate indices

Manfred Krtscha

Can subjective data improve inequality measurement? A multidimensional index of economic inequality

Philipp Poppitz

Informal sector heterogeneity and income inequality: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Franck M. Adoho and Djeneba Doumbia

Economic insecurity in Spain: A multidimensional analysis

Marina Romaguera de la Cruz

Misperceptions and mismeasurements: An analysis of subjective economic inequality

Aboozar Hadavand

Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?

Xavi Ramos and Dirk Van de gaer