Overview

This research programme, a partnership between INET and the University’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention, seeks to understand the drivers and implications of economic inequality across rich countries and what is required to produce better, fairer growth and opportunity. The programme was initially established with support from the Resolution Foundation from 2014-18, with a particular focus on how working-age households around and below the middle of the distribution were faring and how this could be improved. The Oxford Martin Programme on Inequality and Prosperity supported by Citi from 2016-21 continued to probe the sources and implications of economic inequality, how inequality affects economic growth and living standards as well as intergenerational mobility and opportunity, the political consequences of inequality, and policy responses. The programme is currently funded primarily through a 6-year Synergy Grant from the European Research Council for Towards Distributional National Accounts, with Brian Nolan leading the Oxford team in a collaboration with Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley). Between 2014 & 2024 this programme was known as the Employment Equity and Growth (EEG) programme; a reading list of core EEG publications can be accessed here.

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Recent Publications

Mar 2025
INET Working Paper
No. 2025-07 - Intergenerational Poverty in Europe: A Latent Class Analysis
Michele Bavaro ,  Rafael Carranza ,  Brian Nolan
Jan 2025
Journal
Changing household structures, household employment, and poverty trends in rich countries
in Journal of European Social Policy
Leo Azzollini ,  Richard Breen ,  Brian Nolan
Jan 2025
Journal
Simulating Long-Run Wealth Distribution and Transmission: The Role of Intergenerational Transfers
in Italian Economic Journal
Michele Bavaro ,  Stefano Boscolo ,  Simone Tedeschi
Oct 2024
Blog
Intergenerational poverty persistence in Europe and the Great Gatsby curve
Michele Bavaro ,  Rafael Carranza ,  Brian Nolan
Oct 2024
Journal
Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Europe - Is There a 'Great Gatsby Curve' for Poverty?
in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Michele Bavaro ,  Rafael Carranza ,  Brian Nolan
Oct 2024
Journal
The Total Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment: Meta-analysis of Sibling Correlations From 18 Countries
in Demography
Lewis Anderson ,  Patrick Präg ,  Evelina T. Akimova ,  Christiaan Monden
Sept 2024
INET Working Paper
No. 2024-07 - Monopsony Power and Poverty: The Consequences of Walmart Supercenter Openings
Lukas Lehner ,  Zachary Parolin ,  Clemente Pignatti ,  Rafael Pintro Schmitt
Sept 2024
Journal
Aug 2024
Article
Aug 2024
Journal
Jun 2024
Journal
A cycle or a tunnel? A study on unemployment and low-pay dynamics in Italy
in Labour Economics
Michele Bavaro ,  Federico Tullio
Jun 2024
Journal
Assessing income redistribution: what are the key analytic choices?
in Fiscal Studies
Rafael Carranza ,  Brian Nolan
Jun 2024
Journal
Emission inequality: Comparing the roles of income and wealth in Belgium and the United Kingdom
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Milena Büchs ,  Tim Goedemé ,  Sarah Kuypers ,  Gerlinde Verbist
May 2024
Journal
Beggaring Thy Co-Worker: Labor Market Dualization and the Wage Growth Slowdown in Europe
in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILR Review)
Lukas Lehner ,  Paul Ramskogler ,  Aleksandra Riedl
Apr 2024
Journal
The Italian Treasury Dynamic Microsimulation Model: Data, Structure and Validation
in International Journal of Microsimulation
Riccardo Conti ,  Michele Bavaro ,  Stefano Boscolo ,  Elena Fabrizi ,  Chiara Puccioni ,  Simone Tedeschi
Mar 2024
Journal
Is working enough to escape poverty? Evidence on low-paid workers in Italy
in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
Michele Bavaro ,  Michele Raitano
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
Journal
Political mobilisation and socioeconomic inequality in policy congruence
in European Journal of Political Research
David Weisstanner ,  Carsten Jensen
Jan 2024
INET Working Paper
Dec 2023
INET Working Paper
Dec 2023
INET Working Paper
Dec 2023
INET Working Paper
No. 2023-27 - Why net worth is the wrong concept for explaining consumption: evidence from Italy
John Muellbauer ,  Riccardo De Bonis ,  Danilo Liberati ,  Concetta Rondinelli
Nov 2023
Journal
The Temporal Dimension of Parental Employment: Fixed-term Contracts, Non-standard Work Schedules and Children’s Education in Germany
in European Sociological Review
Bastian A. Betthäuser ,  Nhat An Trinh ,  Anette Eva Fasang
Nov 2023
Journal
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels
in The Journal of Economic Inequality
Gustavo A. Marrero ,  Juan C. Palomino ,  Gabriela Sicilia
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