Inequality and Taxation

La desigualdad es un fenómeno difícil de medir por comprender muchas dimensiones y requerir datos no siempre disponibles. Habitualmente el foco se pone en la renta, que representa el flujo de ingresos recibidos en un período de tiempo (por ejemplo, salario, dividendos, alquileres, etc.). Sin embargo, la riqueza, entendida como el total de activos (saldo […]

Last Tuesday, November 28th, we talked about our book “Un País Posible: Manual de Reformas Políticamente Viables” (Un País Posible: A Handbook of Politically Viable Reforms) thanks to the invitation of the Harvard Kennedy School Spain Alumni Network. The conversation counted with the interventions of Toni Roldán, Miguel Almunia, Marta Suárez-Varela and Antonio Cabrales and […]

Spain has practically the same real per capita income as 15 years ago, while other countries around us are much richer than they were then. This means that over the last eighteen years we have not improved our average standard of living. We are therefore on the road to two lost decades. There are many […]

Key Ideas → 80% of households lost purchasing power during the pandemic (between 2019 and 2021) in real terms. → Inequality was reduced over the same period thanks to large income growth among the poorest 10% of households. → Half of this increase in income is explained by the growth in the coverage rate of […]

EsadeEcPol took part in the preparation of the study “The cost of child poverty in Spain”, presented today by the High Commissioner against Child Poverty, together with Romén Adán (KSNET), María Sánchez (KSNET/LSE), Luis Ayala (UNED), María Romaguera (UNED), Mariña Fernández (UAH), Judit Vall (UB) and Carlos Victoria (EsadeEcPol/UCM), under the direction of Libertad González […]

Income inequality has increased in many developed and developing countries over the last four decades, which has generated growing interest from the academic and policy communities in its measurement and determinants.    The standard source for measuring income inequality and redistribution is household surveys, which tend to underestimate top incomes and do not capture countries’ […]

The growth of income inequality in advanced economies has raised great public concern about a possible deterioration in equality of opportunity. In particular, intergenerational mobility is one of the ways of measuring equality of opportunity: the greater the intergenerational mobility, the less an individual’s economic or social success depends on the socio-economic status of their […]