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Conclusions and policy implicationsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Inequality Policy Developing countriesBook Chapter
Peru: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Earnings Decomposition methods InequalityBook Chapter
Brazil: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Inequality Polarization Task content of jobsBook Chapter
Argentina: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Skills Tasks PolarizationBook Chapter
Indonesia: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Labour market dynamics Inequality OccupationsBook Chapter
Bangladesh: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Labour force survey Inequality PolarizationBook
Tasks, skills, and institutions: The changing nature of work and inequalityBOOK IN PRODUCTION – ESTIMATED FOR PUBLICATION IN SUMMER 2023 Developed countries have experienced a polarization in earnings and in employment, namely stronger growth in the earnings and jobs for the most and least skilled workers at the expen...
Inequality Earnings Labour marketWorking Paper
Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality: A worldwide perspectiveThis paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional trust...
Trust Institutions InequalityJournal Article
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–beneft policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from EcuadorBy combining household survey data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with detailed tax-benefit simulations, this paper quantifies the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax-benefit policies in mitigating the immediate...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyWorking Paper
Tax–benefit responses in Uruguay during the COVID-19 pandemicWe analyse the social protection policy response to COVID-19 and its impact on household incomes in Uruguay during 2020 and 2021, based on static microsimulation methods...
COVID-19 Taxes BenefitsWorking Paper
The evolution of inequality in Mozambique: 1996/97–2019/20After decades of war, ending in 1992, Mozambique embarked on a path of sustained economic growth and substantial poverty reduction...
Inequality Consumption Spatial inequalityWorking Paper
Distributional impacts of agricultural policies in Zambia: A microsimulation approachThis paper examines the distributional impacts of agricultural policies versus those of cash transfers using a tax–benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020...
Agricultural policy Tax Cash transfersLecture
13th B.G. Kumar Lecture Is India a Land of Opportunity? delivered by Professor Kunal SenThe recording of this lecture is available here . Professor Kunal Sen delivers the 13th B.G. Kumar Lecture on 'Is India the Land of Opportunity?' at the Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The lecture begins at...
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Reducing inequality — the great challenge of our time
Early in October 2022, international and Colombian researchers gathered together for three days at the UNIANDES campus, located at the foot of the impressive Monserrate in Bogotá, Colombia...
Inequality Social mobility Group-based inequalityBlog
Inequality, fiscal space, and crisis response — A matter of priority, affordability, or both?
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments financed more than 5000 fiscal support policies worldwide in 2020–21...
Fiscal policy Fiscal capacity Inequality