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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · 12h

Off we go! First Equalitas seminar:

🗓️ Wednesday, October 22, at 12:00 (Google Meet)

🎤Speaker: Daniel Santos, Universidad de La Laguna

Title: Of Sons and Daughters: High Hopes, Uneven Disappointment

💬Discussant: @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social

DM us if you’d like to join!

#seminarioEQUALITAS

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · 2d

We’re excited to launch the Equalitas Seminars, a forum for sharing and discussing ongoing research.

🕐 1h sessions: presentation, comments & discussion.

Open access upon request and approval.

Details about the first session (22nd October) will be announced soon!

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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

🚨🗞️🆕 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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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 researcher Pedro Salas-Rojo (@psalasr.bsky.social) and co-authors have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper “Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe” 📉

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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

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

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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