In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …

-2000, we find an increase in the employment share of interactive occupations within sectors over time that is larger in metro … areas than non-metro areas. We provide evidence that this increase in the interactiveness of employment is related to the …

grew rich. We question their analysis with regard to both of their proxies for pre-modern income, namely urbanization and … population density. First, an alternative measure of urbanization with more observations generates a positive (but not …

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …