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 …

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

This paper analyses the dynamics of wage and income inequality in Slovenia from 1993 to 2002, using two different data … a large increase in wage inequality in the period 1993-1995. However, even after 1995 wage inequality has been creeping … up. To a large degree, we ascribe the major increase in wage inequality to the rapid development of a full-fledged market …

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 …