The generalized entropy class of inequality indices is derived for Generalized Beta of the Second Kind (GB2) income … distributions, thereby providing a full range of top-sensitive and bottom-sensitive measures. An examination of British income … inequality in 1994/95 and 2004/05 illustrates the analysis. …

calculate inequality and polarization indices and then we specifically analyze whether the Spanish tax-benefit system helped to …

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the … changes in personal characteristics explain some of the increase in wage inequality whereas the changes in task assignments … strongly work towards reducing wage inequality. The coefficient effect for personal characteristics works towards an increase …

. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the … top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage inequality started to rise also at the bottom of the distribution. Hence … substantial part of the increase in inequality, in particular at the top of the distribution. We further argue that selection into …

distributions. A first contribution is to document a hitherto unknown fact: the twisting of the lower tail is substantially …

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 … and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between … service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …

Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong … increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with skill-biased technological changes are at … the core of this evolution. Since 1995, lower-tail inequality decreased, while upper-tail inequality increased at a slower …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …