The session will have four interventions from: 

1) Ms. Nadja Lamei (Statistics Austria). Title: "The impact of the corona crisis on income inequality in Austria";

2) Federico Polidoro - Title: “The consequences of the shocks in the last years (pandemic, high inflation) on inequalities between high and low income households in Italy: measures, impact of policies, households’ groups characteristics” 

 3) Dr Estefania Alaminos Aguilera, Ms Sigita Geske, Ms Maria Orfanou, Ms Agata Kaczmarek-Firth, and Mr Rasim Ryustem (European Commission-Eurostat). Title: “What happened with income inequality in Europe during 2020-2022?”.

Promoting income equality is one of the main social economic targets for enhancing the equal opportunities of people’s wellbeing. Global challenges started in 2020 (COVID-19, war in Ukraine, spike of energy prices and increased inflation) affected all countries. During COVID-19, the impact of multiple lockdowns was spread in the reduction of the jobs or stand stills of the enterprises. The governments provided, to varying degrees, replacement wages or compensations to enterprises. However the least socially protected population (as economically inactive or with undeclared jobs)  might not have fully benefited from the government funding thus bearing the impact of COVID-19 to a large extent. Technical difficulties have also arisen in household surveys to correctly measure the different impacts and ad hoc solutions had to be implemented. In addition, in 2022 the war in Ukraine and spike of energy prices and inflation, might have affected the different population groups in various extent.
The aim of this session is to explore the impact of the global challenges on the distribution of income across countries with an eye also on measurement issues in household surveys.

Organiser: Dr Estefania Alaminos Aguilera 

Chair: Federico Polidoro 

Speaker: Nadja Lamei 

Speaker: Federico Polidoro

Speaker: Dr Estefania Alaminos Aguilera