modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …

This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement andhas been prepared for inclusion …

flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional …

distribution. We show that inequality changed dramatically during the decade, along with modest changes in average income. Applying …