Workshop 3 Dec 2024
3 December 2024, Brussels
At our final workshop, we presented our research results of the 4-year research project funded by BELSPO. The project started from the observation that the consistently low and stable level of Belgian income inequality, as reported in official statistics, seems at odds with how the public at large experience inequality and its evolution, and this is framed in the public debate. We have called this the Belgian Paradox of Inequality Studies (BE-PARADIS). To shed light on this paradox, we not only thoroughly reviewed the data used, we also tapped new data sources and broadened the concept of ‘inequality’ to include dimensions other than just income.
The event took place at the University Foundation in Brussels.
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A new take on income inequality in Belgium
André Decoster (KU Leuven)
01 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference - Decoster New Take.pdf2
Drivers of inequality
Gerlinde Verbist (University of Antwerp)
02 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference Verbist Drivers.pdf3
(Un)equal access to public goods
Micael Castanheira & Giovanni Paolo Mariani (ULB)
03 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference Castanheira Public Goods.pdf4
Inequality in housing
Paula Gobbi (ULB)
04 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference Gobbi Housing.pdf5
New data, new insights
Jonas Vanderkelen (KU Leuven)
05 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference Vanderkelen Data Insights.pdf6
Inequality in well-being
Koen Decancq (University of Antwerp)
06 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference Decancq Wellbeing.pdf7
Inequality within households
Bram De Rock (ULB)
07 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference De Rock Within HH.pdf8
Young and old
Erik Schokkaert (KU Leuven)
08 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference Schokkaert Young and old.pdf9
Dimensions of inequality: reflections from the Deaton Review
Richard Blundell (Institute for Fiscal Studies - London)
09 2024-12-03 BE-PARADIS Final Conference Blundell Deaton Review.pdf