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| March 16, 2009
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Session I: Monetary Measures of Poverty and Inequality in Different National Settings |
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| 10:00 a.m - 10:30 a.m. |
The OECD Approach to Measuring Income Distribution and Poverty: Strengths, Limits and Statistical Issues
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| Michael Forster and Marco Mira D'Ercole, OECD |
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| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Income Indicators in the EU’s Open Method of Coordination
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| Isabelle Maquet-Engsted and David Stanton, SPC, European Commission |
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| 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Income Distribution in New (and old) EU Member States
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| Istvan Toth and Marton Medgyesi, TARKI |
Abstract Paper |
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| 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Weakly Relative Poverty
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| Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen, The World Bank |
| Conference paper being revised. Will be posted when available |
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| 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Session Discussant
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| Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison and LWS, United States |
| Conference paper being revised. Will be posted when available |
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Session II: Broadening Measures of Income (or Resources) |
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| 2:30 p.m - 3:00 p.m. |
Accounting for the Distributional Effects of In-Kind Public Benefits
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| Holly Sutherland, ISER, United Kingdom; and Panos Tsakloglou, Athens University, Greece |
| AbstractPaper |
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| 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
Incidence and Welfare Effects of Indirect Taxes
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| Andre Decoster and Dirk Verwerft, KU Leuven, Belgium; and Cathal O'Donoghue and Jason Loughrey, RERC, Republic of Ireland |
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4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Inequality Analyses
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| Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka, DIW Berlin, Germany |
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4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m |
Analysing and Measuring Social Inclusion in a Global Context
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| Eric Marlier, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg; and A. B. (Tony) Atkinson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| AbstractPaper |
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| 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m |
Accounting for Employee Benefits: Issues of Measurement, Valuation and Social Equivalencies
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| Neil Gilbert, University of California - Berkeley, United States |
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| 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m |
Session Discussant
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| David Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau, United States |
| Conference paper being revised. Will be posted when available |
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| March 17, 2009 |
Session III: Income Levels for Social Assistance |
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| 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m |
Social Assistance Schemes in OECD Countries: Eligibility and Benefits
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| Herwig Immervoll and Michael Forster, OECD |
| Conference paper being revised. Will be posted when available |
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| 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m |
Social Assistance Schemes Across the World: Eligibility Conditions and Benefits
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| Emil Tesliuc, Carlo del Ninno, and Margaret Grosh, The World Bank |
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| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m |
The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain
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| Stephen Jenkins, ISER, United Kingdom; and Lorenzo Cappellari, Università Cattolica, Italy |
| AbstractPaper |
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| 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m |
Session Discussant
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| Robert Lerman, American University and Urban Institute, United States |
| Conference paper being revised. Will be posted when available |
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Session IV: Non-Income Measures |
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| 12:00 p.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Asset-Related Measures of Poverty and Economic Stress
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| Andrea Brandolini, Bank of Italy and LWS, Italy; Silvia Magri, Bank of Italy, Italy; and Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison and LWS, United States |
| AbstractPaper |
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| 12:25 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. |
Constructing
a Consumption Aggregate for the Purpose of Welfare Analysis:
Principles, Issues and Recommendations Arising from the Case of Brazil
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| Peter Lanjouw, The World Bank |
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| 12:50 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Session Discussant
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| Kenneth Couch, University of Connecticut, United States |
| Conference paper being revised. Will be posted when available |
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Session V: Multidimensional Measures |
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| 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Developing and Learning from Measures of Social Inclusion in the European Union
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| Eric Marlier, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg; Bea Cantillon and Karel Van den Bosch, University of Antwerp, Belgium; and Brian Nolan, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
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| 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
Using Non-Monetary Deprivation Indicators to Analyse Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich Countries: Lessons from Europe?
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| Brian Nolan, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland; and Christopher Whelan, ESRI Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
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| 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Estimating the Extra Costs of Living for Disabled People in the EU
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| Asghar Zaidi, OECD; and Tania Burchardt, LSE, United Kingdom |
| Conference paper being revised. Will be posted when available |
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| 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Poverty
Redefined as Low Consumption and Low Wealth, not just Low Income: Its
Psychological Consequences in Australia and Germany
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| Bruce Headey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Australia; and Gert G. Wagner and Peter Krause, DIW Berlin, Germany |
| AbstractPaper |
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| 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Session Discussant
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| Neil Gilbert, University of California - Berkeley, United States |
| Conference paper being revised. Will be posted when available |
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Concluding Session: Lessons for the US from Europe |
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| 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. |
Summing up Discussion by Richard Burkhauser, David Johnson and Timothy Smeeding |
