It is being investigated the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature has produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure...

Program: Panel 1: Keynote: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Labor Migrants: Accentuation of Inequalities. Panel 2: What Makes a Politician an Expert on Colonial Labor? The ILO and the Concept of ‘Native Labor’. Panel 3: Debates on "Trafficking in Persons and Slavery" in Cameroon. Panel...

Topics: - Monetary and financial policy to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and support the recovery; - Fiscal policies to support growth, reduce inequality, and address the public debt overhang; - Structural policies to restore confidence and mitigate the negative impact on employment and income...

Topics: - Explanations for Spending at Older Ages; - The Impact of Covid-10 on Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers; - Has the COVID pandemic changed retirement plans?; - Factors Influencing the Choice of Pension Distributions at Retirement; - Wealth Inequality and Retirement...

Session 1. Firm dynamics and technology; Session 2: Inequality; Session 3. Trade and monetary policy; Session 4: Policy Panel

Theme 1: Globalization, Trade in Services and Intangibles: Conceptual Challenges and Measurement Issues; Theme 2: The Potential and Challenges of Big Data and other Alternative Data in the Production of Prices, National Accounts, and Measures of Economic Well-Being; Theme 3: Time Use, Welfare...

Macroeconomics increasingly emphasizes inequality. When heterogeneous agents interact in frictional markets, macro aggregates depend on the distribution of wealth and cannot be characterized by a representative agent. At the same time, macro shocks and policies have redistributive effects. Now...

This symposium invites papers from scholars from all disciplines (for example, law, politics, economics, sociology) to offer critical perspectives on taxation. Topics might include (but are not limited to): - The role of taxation in addressing wealth and income inequality; - Taxation and gender...

The ECINEQ conference provides a forum for a rigorous analysis of inequality, welfare and redistribution issues, both at the theoretical and at the empirical level, as well as for a discussion of the policy implications of the research findings in this field. ECINEQ aims at achieving high...

The central theme of the conference is “Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice”. Together, these three concepts represent our aspirations for approaches to global development that do not increase inequality, poverty, political marginalization and/or climate change. Solidarity is essential for...