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Carbon Tax Regressivity and Income Inequality
A common presumption in economics is that a carbon tax is regressive – that the tax disproportionately burdens low-incom…
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Inequality in the Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden
Most reports on the labor-market effects of the first wave of COVID-19 have pointed to women, low-skilled workers and ot…
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Women at the Top of the Income Distribution: Are Transition Countries Different?
This policy brief reviews recent research on women at the top of the income distribution. The overall trend across a num…
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Income Inequality in Transition. New Results for Poland Combining Survey and Tax Return Data
We re-examine the evolution of income inequality in Poland in the process of post-socialist transition focusing on the p…
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Poverty Dynamics in Belarus from 2009 to 2016
This brief is based on research that studies the incidence and determinants of poverty in Belarus using data from the ye…
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Latvia Stumbling Towards Progressive Income Taxation: Episode II
In August 2017, the Latvian parliament adopted a major tax reform package that will come into force in January 2018. Thi…
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Spatial Wage Inequality in Belarus
This policy brief summarizes the results of an analysis of wage inequality among the districts of Belarus over the perio…
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Global Inequality – What Do We Mean and What Do We Know?
Concerns about global economic inequality have become central in today’s policy debate. This brief summarizes what is kn…
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