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Socioeconomic inequality in low-carbon technology adoption

Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023

The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...

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The distribution of well-being among Europeans

Brandolini, Andrea; Rosolia, Alfonso - 2019

We analyse the evolution of EU citizens' living standards, considering the EU as a single country. Average living … standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily … declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic convergence of new EU-accession countries. EU15 income inequality fell …

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Recoupling economic and social prosperity

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...

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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses

Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020

The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic inequalities. In this paper we provide a framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other...

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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...

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Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?

Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2017

EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005 and 2011. The choice between ex-ante and ex-post approaches is crucial …

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The household budget survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew - 2018

We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...

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Demographic change and the European income distribution

Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2018

on the income distribution in the EU-27 and examines the potential of tax-benefit systems to counterbalance negative … opposite direction. Changes to projected relative poverty are minimal for most countries. With a few exceptions, EU tax …

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Inequality among European working households, 1890-1960

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2018

In this article we map, for the first time, the time-path of the size distribution of income among working class households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household expenditure surveys. Many are not representative of the...

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Unemployment, education and earnings growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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