Selected publications
Bequest division: The roles of parental motives and children’s gender composition (2026), Labour Economics, 10295 (with W.N. Lekfuangfu and J. Olivera).
The role of information in eliciting support for inheritance taxation: experimental evidence from Luxembourg (2026), International Tax and Public Finance (with J. Olivera and E. Schokkaert).
The influence of inheritances on wealth inequality in rich countries (2025), Journal of Public Economics, 247(C), 105398 (with S. Morelli, B. Nolan and J.C. Palomino).
The progression of achievement gap between immigrant and native-born students from primary to secondary education (2024), Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 92, 100961 (with A. Alieva and V.A. Hildebrand).
The wealth (disadvantage) of single-parent households (2022), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 702(1), 188-204 (with B. Nolan, J.C. Palomino and S. Morelli).
Distributional Change: Assessing the Contribution of Household Income Sources (2022), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84(1), 158-184 (with I. Kyzyma and A. Fusco).
Inheritance, gifts and the accumulation of wealth for low-income households (2021), Journal of European Social Policy, 31(5), 533-548 (with S. Morelli, B. Nolan and J.C. Palomino).
Do Children Carry the Weight of Divorce? (2019), Demography, 56(3), 785-811 (with B. Ozcan and A. Goisis).
Foreign Workers and the Wage Distribution: What Does the Influence Function Reveal? (2018), Econometrics, 6(3), 1-26 (with C. Choe).
Modelling earnings dynamics and inequality: foreign workers and inequality trends in Luxembourg, 1988--2009 (2018), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A: Statistics in Society), 181(2), 409-440 (with D.M. Sologon).
Assessing Individual Income Growth (2016), Economica, 83(332), 679-703 (with S.P. Jenkins).
Wealth Inequality: A Survey (2015), Journal of Economic Surveys, 29(4), 671-710 (with F.A. Cowell).
Recently added material
Bequest division: The roles of parental motives and children’s gender composition (2026), Labour Economics, 10295 (with W.N. Lekfuangfu and J. Olivera).
The role of information in eliciting support for inheritance taxation: experimental evidence from Luxembourg (2026), International Tax and Public Finance (with J. Olivera and E. Schokkaert).
Automation and income inequality in Europe (2026), Industrial and Labour Relations Review (with K. Doorley, J. Gromadzki, P. Lewandowski and D. Tuda).
Cross-country evidence on the individual dynamics of in-work poverty in the EU (2026), Economic Systems, 50(2), 101360 (with M.C. D'Aguanno and A.-C. Guio).
Lorenz regression analysis of inequality of opportunity and explained inequality (2026), ECINEQ Working Papers 699, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Italy (with A. Jacquemin and C. Heuchenne).
Working, yet poor: The dynamics behind Europe’s in-work poverty rate (2026), LISER Policy Brief 2026-21, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (with M.C. D'Aguanno and A.-C. Guio).
Poverty trends in Luxembourg 1985- 2023 — A race between the ‘middle’ and the ‘bottom’ (2026), LISER Policy Brief 2026-01, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (with A. Fusco).
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