Subgroup decomposability is a very useful property in an inequality measure, and level-sensitivity, which requires a … given level of inequality to acquire a greater significance the poorer a population is, is a distributionally appealing … axiom for an inequality index to satisfy. In this paper, which is largely in the nature of a recollection of important …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel … cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …

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

) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …

developing countries. Applying inequality indices and FieldsÂ’ (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data … of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends in wage inequality of urban Bolivia. Using a rent-based dual …

A long literature on inter-distributional inequality (IDI) has developed statistical tools for measuring the extent of … inequality between two groups (e.g. men versus women). Firstly, I introduce the property of group-specific disadvantage focus …