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Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper Series
Working Paper No. 452
Measurement of Income Distribution in Supranational Entities: The Case of the European Union
Andrea Brandolini
November 2006
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), asbl
MEASUREMENT OF INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN SUPRANATIONAL ENTITIES: THE CASE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 1 Andrea Brandolini Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department 22 November 2006 Abstract Greater social cohesion is an explicit goal of the European Union. Progress is monitored considering the performance in each member country on the basis of national indicators; EU wide estimates of inequality and poverty