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Carlos Gradín
@carlosgradin.bsky.social
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Prof. Applied Economics, UVigo. Ex-UNU-WIDER. Economic development, labor economics, inequality, poverty. https://sites.google.com/view/cgradin

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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · 11d
A very insightful lecture by Prof. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his Honorary Doctorate from UIMP yesterday on the true meaning of economic freedom and its misconceptions, the concerning threats to academic freedom, and much more.

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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · 14d
This coming Sunday at noon, I'll have the great honor of introducing @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his investiture ceremony as an honorary doctorate by the #UIMP at the beautiful Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander (Spain).
Broadcast uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
(introduction in Spanish)
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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · 23d
📢 Out now: “Gender Equality in a Changing World”

Key topics covered:
✅ Advancing equal opportunities in work, education, leadership, health, and care
✅ Addressing gender-based violence
✅ The digital and green transitions

Find out more 👉 oe.cd/6ag
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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · Sep 9
Thanks for coming!
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Sébastien Fontenay @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social · Sep 9
It was a pleasure presenting at the XI EQUALITAS workshop @redequalitas.bsky.social hosted by @uvigo.bsky.social 🤩 Very grateful for the insightful feedback! Big thanks to the organizers @carlosgradin.bsky.social, Coral and Olga 👏
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Sébastien Fontenay @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social · Sep 9
It was a pleasure presenting at the XI EQUALITAS workshop @redequalitas.bsky.social hosted by @uvigo.bsky.social 🤩 Very grateful for the insightful feedback! Big thanks to the organizers @carlosgradin.bsky.social, Coral and Olga 👏
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Sara Ayllón @ayllonsara.bsky.social · Sep 5
Hoy en Vigo con l@s @redequalitas.bsky.social en nuestro XI workshop! #poverty #inequality #ipv #wages #academicfriends #workhardplayhard
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Stephen P. Jenkins @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social · Apr 14
Hurrah: write-up of my Ruggles Lecture (with @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social and @nyecominetti.bsky.social) now out in Review of Income and Wealth, Open Access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....
ICYMI: our companion report at www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Jun 27
🔁By merging sociological and economic insights, the article offers a nuanced discussion of wealth's role in contemporary class analysis (2/2)

Full paper here 🔍
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Wealth and Income Stratification by Social Class in Five European Countries - Social Indicators Research
Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally overlooked its role in class-base...
link.springer.com
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · Jun 26
🇪🇸 How is wealth distributed in Spain ?

This study, co-authored by G.A. Marrero @cmtneztt.bsky.social @juancpal.bsky.social & D.Petrov, is the first systematic analysis of regional wealth inequality in Spain.

Key findings in 🧵[1/5]
wid.world/news-article...
New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain - WID - World Inequality Database
New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an internation...
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Jun 25
Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.'

Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · Jun 5
New OA book by Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese.

They explore the roles of unemployment, informality, economic security, and welfare stigma to explain why more people feel poor in LAC than objective measures suggest.
#poverty @unu-wider.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Poverty in Latin America
Cambridge Core - Economic Development and Growth - Poverty in Latin America
doi.org
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jun 4
🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
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Tim Köhler @timkohler.bsky.social · May 26
How have the returns to education evolved during the post-Apartheid era in South Africa?🇿🇦

Read about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog I’ve put together below, summarizing a 2024 RESEP paper also below.

www.econ3x3.org/article/how-...

Full paper for those interested: resep.sun.ac.za/wp-content/u...
How have the returns to education evolved in post-apartheid South Africa? | Econ3x3
www.econ3x3.org
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Pedro Salas-Rojo 🍉 @psalasr.bsky.social · May 26
Hace unos días conversé con Rodrigo Terrasa sobre herencias, desigualdad intergeneracional y desigualdad intrageneracional. Le ha quedado un artículo muy chulo:

¿Heredas o trabajas?

www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · May 20
A lecture series organized by the International Economic Association on the Economic Consequences of Automation and AI. Watch the videos by Pascual Restrepo, David Autor, and Joshua Gans. www.iea-world.org/automation-a...
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Pedro Salas-Rojo 🍉 @psalasr.bsky.social · May 19
📣New paper out with #VanesaJorda and @paolobrunori.bsky.social! Polarization of Opportunity @ Econletters.

Short, (hopefully) interesting, and fun to write and collaborate with these guys. Cannot ask for more! Link:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · May 14
Acemoglu argues: the positive macroeconomic effects of AI will be modest at best. "AI advances are unlikely to increase inequality as much as previous automation [...] predicted to widen the gap between capital and labor income [...] some of new tasks may have negative social value"
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Anda David @andadavid.bsky.social · May 12
What do we know on inequality in African countries? Check out our op-ed based on our book :) theconversation.com/what-causes-...
What causes inequality in African countries? New book traces a vicious cycle
The richest 1% of Africans received 27% of the total revenue from growth on the continent. This is one of the inequalities that needs to change.
theconversation.com
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Álvaro Junquera @junquera.bsky.social · May 7
ineapir: an R package to query statistical data from National Statistics Institute (INE Spain) github.com/es-ine/ineapir
GitHub - es-ine/ineapir: Obtaining data published by the National Statistics Institute
Obtaining data published by the National Statistics Institute - GitHub - es-ine/ineapir: Obtaining data published by the National Statistics Institute
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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Apr 30
Get to know us!! 📑📊 Our areas of interest include:

- Economics of inequality and poverty
- Public policy evaluation
- Labour economics
- Population economics
- Macroeconomics
- Institutional economics
- Applied microeconometrics
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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Apr 30
Welcome!

EQUALITAS is a group of researchers interested in the analysis of inequality and poverty, including theoretical discussions, empirical studies on income distribution in a variety of countries, evaluation of social and labour market policies and the study of equity in the labour market.
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Ricardo Santos @rgoulaosantos.bsky.social · Apr 14
The Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme launches today the results of an impact study of Mozambique's main Social Protection scheme, PSSB Idosos. The programme aims to support elderly Mozambican, age 60 years old and older living under poverty. #VLSMoz @ununiversity.bsky.social
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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · Mar 27
🗞️ ¿Qué es la inseguridad económica? ¿Cómo se puede medir?

Nuestros compañeros Dmitry Petrov y Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz diseccionan este tema en una nueva entrada de nuestro blog. Todo a partir de su artículo publicado en Review of Economics of the Household.

📎 sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...
Inseguridad Económica: Un Problema Más Allá de la Pobreza y la Desigualdad
Cita: Petrov, D., & Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, M. (2024). Measuring economic insecurity by combining income and wealth: an extended well-being approach. Review of Economics of the Household, 1-27.
https://sites.google.com/view/weipo-uah/blog/inseguridad-económica-un-problema-más-allá-de-la-pobreza-y-la-desigualdad?authuser=0
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Nicolai Suppa @nsuppa.bsky.social · Mar 19
We also touch upon related paper, where we combine projections and simulation-techniques to analyze covid & related policy responses. Permits us to account for time lapsed since last data collection. Common issue many countries.

Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Global multidimensional poverty and COVID-19: A decade of progress at risk?
According to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), an internationally comparable measure, poverty in developing countries has fallen substa…
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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg @lisdata.bsky.social · Mar 10
📢 Applications Open: 2025 LIS Summer Workshop! 📢

Join us 30 June – 4 July 2025 at the University of Luxembourg for an intensive one-week course on Comparative Inequality Measurement using the LIS & LWS Databases.

Workshop organised together with @uni.lu @liser.lu.
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Ricardo Santos @rgoulaosantos.bsky.social · Feb 26
#SocialMobilityMoz - Read the report in igmozambique.wider.unu.edu/report/inter...
Intergenerational Social Mobility in Mozambique | Inclusive growth in Mozambique
This report is the result of an analysis of intergenerational social mobility in Mozambique using data collected from six administrative posts across four provinces (Maputo, Zambézia, Sofala, and Namp...
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Carlos J. Gil @karlosj89.bsky.social · Feb 24
No class death/decomposition—Wealth accumulation is firmly stratified by social classes in Europe, harming equal opportunity: new @socialindicators.bsky.social📝 by @psalasr.bsky.social @guillemvidal.me Villani 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Wealth and Income Stratification by Social Class in Five European Countries - Social Indicators Research
Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally overlooked its role in class-base...
link.springer.com
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Ricardo Santos @rgoulaosantos.bsky.social · Feb 21
Agriculture in Mozambique is the main activity of 70% of its population, generated 23% of its production and 20% of the country's exports. igmozambique.wider.unu.edu/report/agric... #MozAgriReport2025
Agricultural development in Mozambique | Inclusive growth in Mozambique
This report examines the trends, challenges, and opportunities in Mozambique’s agricultural sector from 2002 to 2020, with a particular emphasis on smallholder farming. It is based on a novel dataset ...
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Miguel Parra @miguelparra.bsky.social · Feb 20
📣 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!

Join us at the Universidad de Alcalá for our first Early Career and PhD Workshop on the 12th - 13th of June 2025!

If working on socio-economic mobility and public policies (education, labour market, etc.), this is your event. Don't miss out and apply before mid-March!
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