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L'ultimo Rapporto Povertà di Caritas Italiana ospita anche un mio saggio, con Giacomo Gabbuti.

Parliamo delle disuguaglianze esistenti e del come e perché occuparsene. Felici di aver ospitato la presentazione all'università Roma Tre.

La registrazione completa👇
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AI and Economics - ICMS Workshop Template

My colleagues are organizing a workshop on

*AI for economic research*

next March.

Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...

Cité

[Music] My new piano composition Cité is out now and available on Spotify ☺️

Cover art: Fabio Ranaldi
Sound engineering: Beatrice Balagna
Production: Elena Butti

Roberto Iacono (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Capital and Labor Income Mobility - Dipartimento di Economia e Management Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025, at 2:30 pm Venue: Room Bruguier Pacini, DEM + Online via Teams Speaker: Roberto Iacono…Leggi tutto...

Our speaker this week is @robertoiacono.org (NTNU), who is currently visiting our Department of Economics @unipisa.bsky.social and presents "Capital and Labor Income Mobility", joint with @marcoranaldi.bsky.social and @joelliambuehler.bsky.social . www.ec.unipi.it/eventi/rober... #econsky #seminar

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social

Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 - WID - World Inequality Database Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 This paper combines income and wealth inequality series from the World Inequality Database (WID) and new global series on hou...

Does #equality promote #inclusion and #productivity, or hinder #growth❓

🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.

Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...

12th London Inequality Workshop The London Inequality Workshop brings together researchers studying economic inequality, based in and around London.

📢 Event Announcement!

Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop.

We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby!

✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12

Average tax rates in the US in 2019 as a share of wealth. Tax declines from 30% for percentile 20 to 4% for the top wealth percentile.

Two points missing in recent Wealth Tax debates:
- If we measure total taxes as a % of wealth (not income), the system is highly regressive
- The wealthiest pay 3%-4% of their wealth annually in taxes. Wealth Tax shouldn't be seen as starting from zero (see US data from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social)

Two weeks! Apply by Nov. 3 to our postdoctoral scholars program. Two positions starting in Aug. 2026: one focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Learn more at the link below!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky

Reference Point Reference Point is a Library, Bookshop and Bar in 180 Strand with a focus on democratising rare and inaccessible visual literature serving as a collaborative space for London's creative community. RP…

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Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3,
incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar.
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Revue de l'OFCE n° 190 : Théorie de la régulation

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Labor income tends to lift individuals up the distribution — through life-cycle and human capital dynamics — while capital income, more volatile and concentrated, is often linked to downward shifts.

Key findings:

🔹 Measures of capital and labor mobility differ across metrics;

🔹 Upward mobility is mainly driven by labor income (and joint upward moves);

🔹 Downward mobility stems mostly from capital income (and joint downward moves).

We introduce a new framework that decomposes total income mobility into its labor and capital components across the life cycle — covering nearly 300,000 individuals.

Pleased to see our new paper finally out!

Together with joël bühler and Roberto Iacono, we study income mobility dynamics in Norway using 26 years of high-quality register data.

Main result: upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income — and almost never by capital alone. (1/4)

Variations on Knuth's Twindragon
Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib

The real job market prep is learning to explain why your research matters in under 30 seconds to someone who’s looking at their phone

Great post by @brankomilan.bsky.social on Compositional vs. Income Ineq, highlighting @marcoranaldi.bsky.social's role in developing this novel concept. Regarding the high CI in the Nordics, @elisapalagi.bsky.social & I in our BEJEAP paper (doi.org/10.1515/beje...) have another interpretation..(1/n)

Just read @brankomilan.bsky.social's latest on income & compositional inequality. One more point: if AI pushes up the capital share by replacing jobs across skill levels, reducing compositional inequality can help capital complement labor—and prevent income inequality from rising👇

New Capitalism in America Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people

My today's Substack:
New Capitalism in America
Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...

New essay from my month at @ieadeparis.bsky.social where I explore compositional inequality in K and L and its links to capitalism’s big challenges (climate, politics, technology, inequality). Plus, a fresh take on Michal Kalecki’s full-employment argument:

paris.pias.science/article/capi...

📢We're hiring: Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics & Business.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced & skilled educator to specialise in the teaching and assessment of Economics & Business with a focus on Eastern European countries.

Apply by 21 July
See more: bit.ly/4l9L4wA

Thrilled to have visited Siegen this week—discussed my joint work with @brankomilan.bsky.social with MA students and presented my current research with Roberto Iacono & Joël Bühler on capital and labor income mobility (paper out soon). Thanks a lot, @svenjafl.bsky.social, for the kind invitation!

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]

Rethinking how the state imagined, practiced and evaluated is at the heart of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social‬'s mission. Join us for our annual #RethinkingTheState Forum (18-20 June).

Learn more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

For the first time ever, China's CO₂ emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, rather than reduced power demand.

Distributional varieties of capitalism through the conceptualization and measurement of compositional inequality. What do we know, and what’s next?

New open-access paper out now in ROPE👇

Link: shorturl.at/WDT20

📢 #CallForPapers Annual Research #Conference of the CAS "Finance and Inequality"
The Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Bonn invites submissions for its annual conference.
Deadline: 25 April, 2025
More information: cepr.org/events/annua...
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