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Working Paper Series #12

Tax Preferences, Partisanship and Perceptions of Society: Evidence from Austria (Gregor Zens and Philipp Warum)

Working Paper Series #11

Salience of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation (Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström)

Workshop on Distributional National Accounts

On June 7th 2019 Dr.in Sofie Waltl organised a workshop on Distributional National Accounts (DINA) at WU. DINA combines survey and control data and connects it to information from national accounts.…

WU matters. WU talks.: Social Advancement in Austria A ladder without rungs?

On Wednesday, May 29th 2019, the event series „WU matters. WU talks.“ on the issue of social advancement in Austria took place at WU. Karin Heitzmann, one of INEQ's heads of the institute, acted as…

Guest researcher Daniel Waldenström

The Institute for Macroeconomics and the research institute INEQ are pleased to welcome guest researcher Daniel Waldenström (Paris School of Economics). He spent a week at WU in march holding lectures…

Working Paper Series #9

The Decomposition of Income Inequality in the EU-28

Long Night of The Sciences 2018

On April 13 WU participated in the "Long Night of Sciences" to increase accessiblity of our research. INEQ presented its recent research results as an interactive game: "Luck and Distribution/The Game…

Working Paper Series #8

Literacy skills, equality of educational opportunities and educational outcomes: an international comparison

INEQ at the first WID.world conference

On December 14th and 15th the first WID.world Conference was hosted in Paris. One of the highlights was the presentation of the World Inequality Report. Economists around Thomas Piketty were able to…

Gender wealth gap

Our colleague Alyssa Schneebaum presents her findings about the distribution of wealth among man and woman in Austria.