The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices … the results obtained to different degrees of inequality aversion and to different equivalence scales, taking into account …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

in explaining such economic outcomes as inequality can lead to misinterpretations. Income should be adjusted for costs of …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

aggregate relations. This paper establishes a bridge between the aggregation and the inequality and growth literature by …, implying that increases in income inequality may be unambiguously associated with temporary increases in a country’s growth …-run effects of income inequality may suffer from aggregation bias if the temporary effects of the MLD changes are not considered …

penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …