The spread of the pandemic and the consequent adoption of lockdown measures to prevent
infections had severe consequences for business activity and employment. By using data …

This chapter reviews the use of microsimulation in understanding income inequality. The
primary added value of microsimulation models is the capacity to simulate counterfactual …

This paper addresses how to nowcast household income changes in a context of
generalized but asymmetric economic shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic by integrating …

We study inequality in gross labour income among the working-age population, comparing
Italy to the other main euro area countries. We use EU-SILC data between 2008 and 2018 …

This paper relies on a microsimulation framework to undertake an analysis of the
distributional implications of the COVID-19 crisis over three waves. Given the lack of real …

This analysis aims to explore how employee income distribution performed during the first
year of the COVID-19 pandemic; it further aims to compare it with a pre-pandemic scenario …

The purpose of this paper is to measure employee income mobility during the first year of
COVID-19 and, as a further result, to offer evidence of the progressive effect of short-term …

A broad economic literature has analyzed changes in the wage structure using a taskbased
framework. This paper complements this literature by providing evidence on the relationship …