Dr Francisco Azpitarte Raposeiras

Ronald Henderson Research Fellow

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

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Biography

Francisco joined the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in March 2011 as the Ronald Henderson Research Fellow within the Labour Economics and Social Policy research program. He holds a Masters degree in Economic Analysis from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and completed his PhD in Economics at the Universidade de Vigo in 2009. After finishing his Postdoctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences in 2011, he was appointed in the Ronald Henderson Research Fellow position at the Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne and the Brotherhood of St Laurence.

Research Interests

• Measurement of poverty and inequality

• Social exclusion and multidimensional poverty

• Welfare economics

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Selected Publications

• Herault, N. and Azpitarte, F. (2014) ‘Understanding Changes in the Distribution and Redistribution of Income: A Unifying Decomposition Framework’, Review of Income and Wealth (forthcoming).
• Herault, N. and Azpitarte, F. (2014) ‘Recent Trends in Income Redistribution in Australia: Can Changes in the Tax-Benefit System Account for the Decline in Redistribution?’, The Economic Record (forthcoming).
• Azpitarte, F. and Alonso, O. (2014) ‘On the Measurement of Intermediate Inequality: a Dominance Criterion for a Ray-Invariant Notion’, Research on Economic Inequality, Vol 22, pp. 401-420.
• Azpitarte, F. (2014) ‘Has Economic Growth in Australia Been Good for the Income-Poor? and for the Multidimensionally-Poor?’, Social Indicators Research, Vol. 117, No. 3, pp. 871-905.
• Azpitarte, F. (2013) ‘The Measurement of Poverty using Income and Wealth : a Comparison of Multidimensional Approaches using U.S and Spanish Data’, Papeles de Economia Española, No. 135.
• Azpitarte, F. (2012) ‘Measuring Poverty using both Income and Wealth: a Cross-Country Comparison between the U.S. and Spain’, Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 24-50.
• Azpitarte, F. (2011) ‘Can Corruption Constrain the Size of Governments?’, European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol.32, No. 1, pp. 1-14.
• Azpitarte, F. (2011) ‘Measurement and Identification of Asset-Poor Households: a Cross-National Comparison between Spain and the United Kingdom’, Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 87-110.
• Azpitarte, F. (2010) ‘The Household Wealth Distribution in Spain: the Role of Housing and Financial Wealth’, Hacienda Publica Española/Revista de Economia Publica, Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 65-90.