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 …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …

macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the … correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …