This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea …, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures by population groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of data limitations). According to national family income and expenditure surveys, income inequality …

Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is accepted practice when measuring poverty and inequality … possible source of additional needs: disability. Using two UK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … theory is that a household¿s standard of living is a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be …

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …

inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by … income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to …

responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased …

Inequality aversion and risk aversion are widely assumed features of economic models. But a review of the literature … designed to separate inequality aversion from risk aversion. In a set of laboratory experiments, subjects chose between two … alternative with constant risk level implies a higher level of inequality aversion. The experiment was conducted among 211 eight …

The analysis of inequality is placed in the context of recent developments in economics and statistics. Prepared for …

This paper adopts a counterfactual decomposition analysis to analyse cross-country differences in the size of household … wealth and levels of household wealth inequality. The findings of the paper suggest that the biggest share of cross …-country differences is not due to differences in the distribution of household demographic and economic characteristics but rather reflect …

I set out a new method for estimating true (Konüs) PPPs. Household consumption per head deflated by these PPPs answers … household consumption, such as the ones published by the World Bank, are not based explicitly on economic theory. So it is not … religion. The gap between the richest and the poorest countries is wider than when household consumption is deflated by a …

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 …