Carlos Gradín
@carlosgradin.bsky.social
Prof. Applied Economics, UVigo. Ex-UNU-WIDER. Economic development, labor economics, inequality, poverty. https://sites.google.com/view/cgradin
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Ayer se presentó el IX Informe FOESSA sobre la situación social en España. Imprescindible este análisis para el diseño adecuado de las políticas públicas que necesitamos www.caritas.es/main-files/u...
www.caritas.es
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Ayer se presentó el IX Informe FOESSA sobre la situación social en España. Imprescindible este análisis para el diseño adecuado de las políticas públicas que necesitamos www.caritas.es/main-files/u...
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Hoy hace un mes que nuestro integrante @carlosgradin.bsky.social pronunció la laudatio en la investidura de Joseph E. Stiglitz como doctor honoris causa de la UIMP.
👇Aquí puedes recuperarlo:
equalitas.es/es/noticias/...
👇Aquí puedes recuperarlo:
equalitas.es/es/noticias/...
El premio Nobel de Economía, Joseph E. Stiglitz, fue nombrado doctor honoris causa por la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) | Equalitas
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October 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Hoy hace un mes que nuestro integrante @carlosgradin.bsky.social pronunció la laudatio en la investidura de Joseph E. Stiglitz como doctor honoris causa de la UIMP.
👇Aquí puedes recuperarlo:
equalitas.es/es/noticias/...
👇Aquí puedes recuperarlo:
equalitas.es/es/noticias/...
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Además, destaca sus implicaciones políticas y sociales, vinculadas al aumento del malestar ciudadano y la polarización.
🔗 Puedes leer la entrada completa aquí: sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...
🔗 Puedes leer la entrada completa aquí: sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Además, destaca sus implicaciones políticas y sociales, vinculadas al aumento del malestar ciudadano y la polarización.
🔗 Puedes leer la entrada completa aquí: sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...
🔗 Puedes leer la entrada completa aquí: sites.google.com/view/weipo-u...
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El texto muestra que España se sitúa entre los países europeos con mayores niveles de inseguridad económica, un fenómeno que no solo afecta a los hogares con menos recursos, sino también a amplios sectores de las clases medias.
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
El texto muestra que España se sitúa entre los países europeos con mayores niveles de inseguridad económica, un fenómeno que no solo afecta a los hogares con menos recursos, sino también a amplios sectores de las clases medias.
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A partir de su capítulo publicado en el Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, junto a nuestra también compañera Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, analiza cómo las percepciones de riesgo influyen en la calidad de vida, considerando esto una dimensión central de la cohesión social.
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A partir de su capítulo publicado en el Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, junto a nuestra también compañera Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz, analiza cómo las percepciones de riesgo influyen en la calidad de vida, considerando esto una dimensión central de la cohesión social.
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🚨🗞️ 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓!
Nuestra coordinadora, @olgacanto.bsky.social, reflexiona en esta nueva entrada sobre un tema clave para entender el bienestar en las sociedades avanzadas: la inseguridad económica.
Nuestra coordinadora, @olgacanto.bsky.social, reflexiona en esta nueva entrada sobre un tema clave para entender el bienestar en las sociedades avanzadas: la inseguridad económica.
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🚨🗞️ 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓!
Nuestra coordinadora, @olgacanto.bsky.social, reflexiona en esta nueva entrada sobre un tema clave para entender el bienestar en las sociedades avanzadas: la inseguridad económica.
Nuestra coordinadora, @olgacanto.bsky.social, reflexiona en esta nueva entrada sobre un tema clave para entender el bienestar en las sociedades avanzadas: la inseguridad económica.
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Off we go! First Equalitas seminar:
🗓️ Wednesday, October 22, at 12:00 (Google Meet)
🎤Speaker: Daniel Santos, Universidad de La Laguna
Title: Of Sons and Daughters: High Hopes, Uneven Disappointment
💬Discussant: @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social
DM us if you’d like to join!
#seminarioEQUALITAS
🗓️ Wednesday, October 22, at 12:00 (Google Meet)
🎤Speaker: Daniel Santos, Universidad de La Laguna
Title: Of Sons and Daughters: High Hopes, Uneven Disappointment
💬Discussant: @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social
DM us if you’d like to join!
#seminarioEQUALITAS
October 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Off we go! First Equalitas seminar:
🗓️ Wednesday, October 22, at 12:00 (Google Meet)
🎤Speaker: Daniel Santos, Universidad de La Laguna
Title: Of Sons and Daughters: High Hopes, Uneven Disappointment
💬Discussant: @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social
DM us if you’d like to join!
#seminarioEQUALITAS
🗓️ Wednesday, October 22, at 12:00 (Google Meet)
🎤Speaker: Daniel Santos, Universidad de La Laguna
Title: Of Sons and Daughters: High Hopes, Uneven Disappointment
💬Discussant: @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social
DM us if you’d like to join!
#seminarioEQUALITAS
The importance of spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa is often overlooked. In this new open-access paper in the #JournalofAfricanEconomie, I show that it explains most of the consumption inequality trend in Mozambique in recent years
@unu-wider.bsky.social EQUALproject
doi.org/10.1093/jae/...
@unu-wider.bsky.social EQUALproject
doi.org/10.1093/jae/...
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The importance of spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa is often overlooked. In this new open-access paper in the #JournalofAfricanEconomie, I show that it explains most of the consumption inequality trend in Mozambique in recent years
@unu-wider.bsky.social EQUALproject
doi.org/10.1093/jae/...
@unu-wider.bsky.social EQUALproject
doi.org/10.1093/jae/...
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We’re excited to launch the Equalitas Seminars, a forum for sharing and discussing ongoing research.
🕐 1h sessions: presentation, comments & discussion.
Open access upon request and approval.
Details about the first session (22nd October) will be announced soon!
🕐 1h sessions: presentation, comments & discussion.
Open access upon request and approval.
Details about the first session (22nd October) will be announced soon!
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We’re excited to launch the Equalitas Seminars, a forum for sharing and discussing ongoing research.
🕐 1h sessions: presentation, comments & discussion.
Open access upon request and approval.
Details about the first session (22nd October) will be announced soon!
🕐 1h sessions: presentation, comments & discussion.
Open access upon request and approval.
Details about the first session (22nd October) will be announced soon!
A very insightful lecture by Prof. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his Honorary Doctorate from UIMP yesterday on the true meaning of economic freedom and its misconceptions, the concerning threats to academic freedom, and much more.
uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A very insightful lecture by Prof. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his Honorary Doctorate from UIMP yesterday on the true meaning of economic freedom and its misconceptions, the concerning threats to academic freedom, and much more.
uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
This coming Sunday at noon, I'll have the great honor of introducing @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his investiture ceremony as an honorary doctorate by the #UIMP at the beautiful Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander (Spain).
Broadcast uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
(introduction in Spanish)
Broadcast uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
(introduction in Spanish)
September 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This coming Sunday at noon, I'll have the great honor of introducing @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his investiture ceremony as an honorary doctorate by the #UIMP at the beautiful Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander (Spain).
Broadcast uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
(introduction in Spanish)
Broadcast uimptv.es/acto-de-inve...
(introduction in Spanish)
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The OECD's latest gender equality report is out 💥 It was a privilege to join other experts in providing feedback. A monumental effort by OECD staff to synthesize policies and propose a way forward #GenderEquality #EndGBV
📢 Out now: “Gender Equality in a Changing World”
Key topics covered:
✅ Advancing equal opportunities in work, education, leadership, health, and care
✅ Addressing gender-based violence
✅ The digital and green transitions
Find out more 👉 oe.cd/6ag
Key topics covered:
✅ Advancing equal opportunities in work, education, leadership, health, and care
✅ Addressing gender-based violence
✅ The digital and green transitions
Find out more 👉 oe.cd/6ag
September 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The OECD's latest gender equality report is out 💥 It was a privilege to join other experts in providing feedback. A monumental effort by OECD staff to synthesize policies and propose a way forward #GenderEquality #EndGBV
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Hoy en Vigo con l@s @redequalitas.bsky.social en nuestro XI workshop! #poverty #inequality #ipv #wages #academicfriends #workhardplayhard
September 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hoy en Vigo con l@s @redequalitas.bsky.social en nuestro XI workshop! #poverty #inequality #ipv #wages #academicfriends #workhardplayhard
Thanks for coming!
It was a pleasure presenting at the XI EQUALITAS workshop @redequalitas.bsky.social hosted by @uvigo.bsky.social 🤩 Very grateful for the insightful feedback! Big thanks to the organizers @carlosgradin.bsky.social, Coral and Olga 👏
September 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thanks for coming!
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EQUALITAS Research Members Starter Pack. Join us! go.bsky.app/9vjdS7E
July 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
EQUALITAS Research Members Starter Pack. Join us! go.bsky.app/9vjdS7E
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🔁By merging sociological and economic insights, the article offers a nuanced discussion of wealth's role in contemporary class analysis (2/2)
Full paper here 🔍
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Full paper here 🔍
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Wealth and Income Stratification by Social Class in Five European Countries - Social Indicators Research
Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally overlooked its role in class-base...
link.springer.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🔁By merging sociological and economic insights, the article offers a nuanced discussion of wealth's role in contemporary class analysis (2/2)
Full paper here 🔍
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Full paper here 🔍
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🚨🗞️🆕 EQUALITAS researchers Gustavo A. Marrero, Juan César Palomino and Dmitry Petrov are launching this project together with Clara Martínez-Toledano to measure regional wealth inequality in Spain.
🇪🇸 How is wealth distributed in Spain ?
This study, co-authored by G.A. Marrero @cmtneztt.bsky.social @juancpal.bsky.social & D.Petrov, is the first systematic analysis of regional wealth inequality in Spain.
Key findings in 🧵[1/5]
wid.world/news-article...
This study, co-authored by G.A. Marrero @cmtneztt.bsky.social @juancpal.bsky.social & D.Petrov, is the first systematic analysis of regional wealth inequality in Spain.
Key findings in 🧵[1/5]
wid.world/news-article...
New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain - WID - World Inequality Database
New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an internation...
wid.world
June 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🚨🗞️🆕 EQUALITAS researchers Gustavo A. Marrero, Juan César Palomino and Dmitry Petrov are launching this project together with Clara Martínez-Toledano to measure regional wealth inequality in Spain.
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Humbled, grateful. Thanks, of course, to brilliant coauthors.
The paper is out in SIR: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In a hurry? We summarised it for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
The paper is out in SIR: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In a hurry? We summarised it for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.'
Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!
LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg
buff.ly
June 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Humbled, grateful. Thanks, of course, to brilliant coauthors.
The paper is out in SIR: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In a hurry? We summarised it for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
The paper is out in SIR: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In a hurry? We summarised it for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
New OA book by Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese.
They explore the roles of unemployment, informality, economic security, and welfare stigma to explain why more people feel poor in LAC than objective measures suggest.
#poverty @unu-wider.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
They explore the roles of unemployment, informality, economic security, and welfare stigma to explain why more people feel poor in LAC than objective measures suggest.
#poverty @unu-wider.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Poverty in Latin America
Cambridge Core - Economic Development and Growth - Poverty in Latin America
doi.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
New OA book by Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese.
They explore the roles of unemployment, informality, economic security, and welfare stigma to explain why more people feel poor in LAC than objective measures suggest.
#poverty @unu-wider.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
They explore the roles of unemployment, informality, economic security, and welfare stigma to explain why more people feel poor in LAC than objective measures suggest.
#poverty @unu-wider.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
June 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
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Hace unos días conversé con Rodrigo Terrasa sobre herencias, desigualdad intergeneracional y desigualdad intrageneracional. Le ha quedado un artículo muy chulo:
¿Heredas o trabajas?
www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...
¿Heredas o trabajas?
www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...
May 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hace unos días conversé con Rodrigo Terrasa sobre herencias, desigualdad intergeneracional y desigualdad intrageneracional. Le ha quedado un artículo muy chulo:
¿Heredas o trabajas?
www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...
¿Heredas o trabajas?
www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...
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How have the returns to education evolved during the post-Apartheid era in South Africa?🇿🇦
Read about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog I’ve put together below, summarizing a 2024 RESEP paper also below.
www.econ3x3.org/article/how-...
Full paper for those interested: resep.sun.ac.za/wp-content/u...
Read about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog I’ve put together below, summarizing a 2024 RESEP paper also below.
www.econ3x3.org/article/how-...
Full paper for those interested: resep.sun.ac.za/wp-content/u...
How have the returns to education evolved in post-apartheid South Africa? | Econ3x3
www.econ3x3.org
May 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
How have the returns to education evolved during the post-Apartheid era in South Africa?🇿🇦
Read about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog I’ve put together below, summarizing a 2024 RESEP paper also below.
www.econ3x3.org/article/how-...
Full paper for those interested: resep.sun.ac.za/wp-content/u...
Read about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog I’ve put together below, summarizing a 2024 RESEP paper also below.
www.econ3x3.org/article/how-...
Full paper for those interested: resep.sun.ac.za/wp-content/u...
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A lecture series organized by the International Economic Association on the Economic Consequences of Automation and AI. Watch the videos by Pascual Restrepo, David Autor, and Joshua Gans. www.iea-world.org/automation-a...
www.iea-world.org
May 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A lecture series organized by the International Economic Association on the Economic Consequences of Automation and AI. Watch the videos by Pascual Restrepo, David Autor, and Joshua Gans. www.iea-world.org/automation-a...
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📣New paper out with #VanesaJorda and @paolobrunori.bsky.social! Polarization of Opportunity @ Econletters.
Short, (hopefully) interesting, and fun to write and collaborate with these guys. Cannot ask for more! Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Short, (hopefully) interesting, and fun to write and collaborate with these guys. Cannot ask for more! Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
📣New paper out with #VanesaJorda and @paolobrunori.bsky.social! Polarization of Opportunity @ Econletters.
Short, (hopefully) interesting, and fun to write and collaborate with these guys. Cannot ask for more! Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Short, (hopefully) interesting, and fun to write and collaborate with these guys. Cannot ask for more! Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Acemoglu argues: the positive macroeconomic effects of AI will be modest at best. "AI advances are unlikely to increase inequality as much as previous automation [...] predicted to widen the gap between capital and labor income [...] some of new tasks may have negative social value"
May 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Acemoglu argues: the positive macroeconomic effects of AI will be modest at best. "AI advances are unlikely to increase inequality as much as previous automation [...] predicted to widen the gap between capital and labor income [...] some of new tasks may have negative social value"