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Carlos Gradín

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Prof. Applied Economics, UVigo. Ex-UNU-WIDER. Economic development, labor economics, inequality, poverty. https://sites.google.com/view/cgradin

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · 1d

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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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · 1d

Además, destaca sus implicaciones políticas y sociales, vinculadas al aumento del malestar ciudadano y la polarización.

🔗 Puedes leer la entrada completa aquí: sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...

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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · 1d

El texto muestra que España se sitúa entre los países europeos con mayores niveles de inseguridad económica, un fenómeno que no solo afecta a los hogares con menos recursos, sino también a amplios sectores de las clases medias.

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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · 1d

A partir de su capítulo publicado en el Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, junto a nuestra también compañera Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, analiza cómo las percepciones de riesgo influyen en la calidad de vida, considerando esto una dimensión central de la cohesión social.

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WEIPO (UAH) @weipo.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🗞️ 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓!

Nuestra coordinadora, @olgacanto.bsky.social, reflexiona en esta nueva entrada sobre un tema clave para entender el bienestar en las sociedades avanzadas: la inseguridad económica.

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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · 2d

The importance of spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa is often overlooked. In this new open-access paper in the #JournalofAfricanEconomie, I show that it explains most of the consumption inequality trend in Mozambique in recent years
@unu-wider.bsky.social EQUALproject
doi.org/10.1093/jae/...

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Red EQUALITAS @redequalitas.bsky.social · 3d

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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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · 17d

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 · 20d

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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OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · 29d

📢 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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Carlos Gradín @carlosgradin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks for coming!

Sébastien Fontenay @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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Sébastien Fontenay @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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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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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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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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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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

buff.ly

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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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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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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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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

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

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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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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