of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self … indices. Moreover, with the use of SF12, a generic health measure, the inequality indicator is reduced by a factor of ten …

, which has its origins in the field of justice research and is used in particular in the measurement of income justice. We …

This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of social exclusion. At the individual level, social …

opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid …

policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

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 …

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …