This paper explores the link between polarization and inequality and proposes some analytical methods to decompose the … even if inequality has increased sharply during the last two decades, the pure polarization component was remained constant …

In most welfare analyses, especially in the literature on normative inequality measurement, it is a commonplace to …

The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality … multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …

Income variablity reduces social welfare if individuals are risk averse, and it is likely to increase inequality if … poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of inequality and … inequality than on welfare. This is because apart from its impact on inequality, risk reduces the certainty equivalent income of …

ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them …

and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … as a robust ranking of inequality for any order of stochastic dominance. This interpretation is also valid when the … maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …