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The Long Way to Gender Equality
What are the contexts and factors that enable or hinder gender pay equalization? What pathways have led to greater gender pay equality and where is
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Poland in the 21st century – one of the most unequal countries in Europe
Poland has experienced the fastest growth in Europe during its transition from communism to a market economy, with real average national income per capita more
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Intergenerational mobility in France
How much do our parents’ incomes determine how much we earn? Is there a link between how easily we move up the social ladder between
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Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform
Although only a few OECD countries currently tax wealth (Colombia, Norway, Spain, Switzerland), the academic and political debate on the complementary role of wealth taxation
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Inequality denial – A response to Auten and Splinter’s work on US inequality
Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman respond to Auten and Splinter’s paper published in November 2023 in the Journal of Political Economy, which erroneously
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Inégalité de revenus au Canada – tendances et comparaisons régionales depuis 1982
Comment les inégalités ont-elles évolué au Canada depuis les années 1980 ? Y a-t-il des disparités entre le Québec et les autres Provinces ? Quelles
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Education at the centre of global poverty reduction
Access to schooling has improved dramatically around the world in recent decades. How useful have these investments been in reducing poverty and gender inequality? Amory
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The overlooked role of public goods in global poverty reduction
Existing poverty statistics focus on household disposable income or consumption, ignoring the large share of national income accruing to individuals in the form of public
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Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics
What drives labor coercion? Do plagues increase labor coercion by creating labor scarcity? Labor scarcity is the main hypothesized determinant of labor coercion Domar (1970),
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