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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · 8d

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.

uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...

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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · 11d

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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Sébastien Fontenay @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social · 13d

The OECD's latest gender equality report is out 💥 It was a privilege to join other experts in providing feedback. A monumental effort by OECD staff to synthesize policies and propose a way forward #GenderEquality #EndGBV

OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · 21d

📢 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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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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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks for coming!

Sébastien Fontenay @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social · 28d

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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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Jul 10

EQUALITAS Research Members Starter Pack. Join us! go.bsky.app/9vjdS7E

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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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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨🗞️🆕 EQUALITAS researchers Gustavo A. Marrero, Juan César Palomino and Dmitry Petrov are launching this project together with Clara Martínez-Toledano to measure regional wealth inequality in Spain.

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...

wid.world

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Pedro Salas-Rojo 🍉 @psalasr.bsky.social · Jun 25

Humbled, grateful. Thanks, of course, to brilliant coauthors.

The paper is out in SIR: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In a hurry? We summarised it for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog:

blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

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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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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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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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...

www.iea-world.org

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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

github.com

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · Apr 30

We aim to develop good research in the field by stimulating high quality research, organising international workshops or seminars, training young researchers and facilitating access to the most recent results for a wide research community and for policy makers.

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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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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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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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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WEIPO @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…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jörg Neugschwender @jneugsch.bsky.social · Mar 10

Please circulate to anyone interested, we are looking for applications to our annual Summer Workshop! 🖥️

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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