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Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration: Vietnamese and Afghan migrants in Canada, Germany, the UK, and the USTHIS COLLECTION OF ARTICLES IS ON EARLY VIEW. Migration is an inherent feature of human history. A rich literature considers the experiences of global migrants across diverse environments...
Involuntary migration InequalityConference
The keynote address at the IRSA 16th Annual Conference — Kunal SenKunal Sen has been invited to give the Keynote Address at this year's Indonesian Regional Science Association's (IRSA) Annual Conference on 12 July. Professor Sen will speak on the main lessons from UNU-WIDER's project on ' The...
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Ecuador’s social protection system failed during the pandemic: It needs a rethinkHousehold incomes in Ecuador were badly hit by the pandemic, despite the government’s emergency grant to families...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyWorking Paper
Do pandemics lead to rebellion? Policy responses to COVID-19, inequality, and protests in the USAThis paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has shaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of protests...
COVID-19 Lockdown protestWorking Paper
Assessing pension-related tax expenditures in South Africa: Evidence from the 2016 retirement reformIn 2016, the South African government introduced a comprehensive reform to simplify and harmonize the pension system in order to incentivize pension savings and increase the fairness of the retirement system...
Pensions Tax incentive InequalityTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 2021): gobal income distributionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database...
Income distribution Inequality WIIDTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 2021): integrated and standardized seriesThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database...
Inequality WIID DatabaseTechnical Note
WIID Companion (March 2021): data selectionThis document is part of a series of technical notes describing the compilation of a new companion database that complements the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)...
Data Inequality WIIDSeminar
François Bourguignon on COVID-19 and inequality
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A ‘data revolution’ for sustainable development leaves gaps on inequality
Among the many things said about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the description by the President of the UN General Assembly’s 70 th session, Mogens Lykketoft, that the SDGs represented ‘an unprecedented statistical challenge&...
Inequality Quantitative research methodology Qualitative research methodologyWorking Paper
The social psychology of economic inequalityIn this review, I provide an overview of the literature investigating the social psychology of economic inequality, focusing on individuals’ understandings, perceptions, and reactions to inequality...
Inequality Economic inequality Psychological aspects (Economics)Working Paper
On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governanceCountering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major development challenge...
Inequality Growth HealthResearch Brief
Working Paper
Changes in occupations and their task content: Implications for employment and inequality in Argentina, 2003–19The aim of this paper is to identify the scope and patterns of the structural transformation as evidenced by changes in occupations and their task content, and their impact on employment, earnings and income distribution in Argentina during the new m...
Skills Tasks PolarizationWorking Paper
Earnings inequality and the changing nature of work: Evidence from Labour Force Survey data of BangladeshWith structural changes in production coupled with technological progress, there have been shifts in modes of production and patterns of employment, with important consequences on task composition of occupations...
Labour force survey Inequality PolarizationWorking Paper
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in EcuadorThis paper makes use of tax–benefit microsimulation techniques to quantify the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax–benefit policies in mitigating the immediate impact of the economic shocks...
COVID-19 Microsimulation Poverty