Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Friday, June 24, 2016

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2:30 PM-4:00 PM


TH13-01
Strategies to Reduce Inequality: An Exchange (Round Table)
Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Discussants: Lane Kenworthy, University of California, San Diego; Ive Marx, University of Antwerp; Brian Nolan, INET, University of Oxford; Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley

4:15 PM-5:45 PM


TH13-02
Poverty and Disadvantage
Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Moderator: Brian Nolan, INET, University of Oxford

Participants:
Unemployment Benefits and Poverty in OECD Countries: The Role of Basic Security and Progressiveness of Income Replacement
Kenneth Nelson, Stockholm University; Laure Doctrinal, Stockholm University; Olof Backman, Stockholm University; Sebastian Siren, Stockholm University
The End of Cheap Talk about Poverty Reduction.
Bea Cantillon, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp
Title: Relative (dis)Advantage. Perspectives from the “Right” Tail
Katharina Hecht, London School of Economics and Political Science

Saturday, June 25, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


TH13-03
Inequality and Health Care, Mobility and Old Age
Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Moderator: Brian Nolan, INET, University of Oxford

Participants:
Just Taxes: Redistribution through Universal Health Care
Anja Rudiger, National Economic & Social Rights Initiative
Intergenerational Mobility and Wage Inequality across OECD countries
Sonja Jovicic, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Ageing Europe's Invisible Plight: Rising Income Inequality in Old Age Due to Employment Flexibilization and Pension Marketization
Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Mannheim

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


TH13-04
Addressing Inequality
Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Moderator: Brian Nolan, INET, University of Oxford

Participants:
Do Corporations Increase Inequality?
Ewan McGaughey, King's College, London
Tackling Inequality: The Distributional Impact of Implementing Atkinson's Alternative Tax/Benefit Reform Packages and the Living Wage in the UK
Chrysa Leventi, ISER, University of Essex; Brian Nolan, INET, University of Oxford; Holly Sutherland, ISER, University of Essex; Iva Tasseva, ISER, University of Essex
“More Normal Than Welfare”: The Mincome Experiment, Stigma, and Community Experience
David Calnitsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:30 PM-4:00 PM


TH13-05
Latin America/Redistributive Preferences
Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Moderator: Ive Marx, University of Antwerp

Participants:
Inequality in Latin America: Understanding Its Evolution in the 1990-2013 Period
Byron VIllacis, UC Berkeley
A Multidimensional Analysis of Inequality in Latin America and How to Reduce It
Clemente Ruiz Duran, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution: A Comparison Between States and Across Time in the US
Javier Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin-Madison

4:15 PM-5:45 PM


TH13-06
Gender, Family and Inequality
Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Moderator: Ive Marx, University of Antwerp

Participants:
Marry Your like: The More the Richer You Are. Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Carlo V. Fiorio, University of Milan
The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: What Can be Done?
Laurie C. Maldonado, LIS; Rense Nieuwenhuis, Stockholm University; Nathaniel Johnson, Graduate Center, City University
What an Analysis of Variation in the ‘Partner Pay-Gap' Tells Us about the Persistence of Income and Gendered Inequalities within Couples: A Comparative Analysis Using Quantile Fixed-Effects Regression.
Laura Romeu Gordo, DZA, Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen; Martina Dieckhoff, WZB; Vanessa Gash, City University London; Antje Mertens, Berlin School of Economics

Sunday, June 26, 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM


TH13-07
Inequality, Growth and Living Standards
Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Moderator: Lane Kenworthy, University of California, San Diego

Participants:
Evaluating and Explaining the Evolution of Ordinary Living Standards Across 30 OECD Countries Between 1980-2013
Stefan Thewissen, University of Oxford; Brian Nolan, INET, University of Oxford
What Happened to Shared Growth? a Cross-Country Comparison of the US with Four Other Rich Countries, 1979-2014
David R. Howell, The New School
A Reassessment of the Institutional Determinants of Wage Inequality: Examining the Role of Law and Legal Institutions in ‘Inclusive' Pay-Setting Institutions and Pay Equity Outcomes
Andrew Morton, University of Leeds

10:45 AM-12:15 PM


TH13-08
Redistribution
Reducing Inequality: Yes We Can?

Moderator: Lane Kenworthy, University of California, San Diego

Participants:
Tax-Benefit Patterns: Impact on Inequality Reduction
Elvire Guillaud, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (CES); Michael Zemmour, Sciences Po (LIEPP)
Incremental and innovative pathways towards more adequate minimum income protection
Ive Marx, University of Antwerp; Sarah Kuypers, University of Antwerp
Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) and Varieties of Distributions (VoD): How Welfare Regimes Affect the Pre and Post Transfer Shapes of Inequalities?
Louis Chauvel, University of Luxembourg; Eyal Bar-Haim, University of Luxembourg