Housing and pension wealth are shown to be important determinants of personal sector consumption and retirement … behaviour in the UK. Housing and state pension wealth have a positive effect on consumption, while private pension wealth … promotes greater savings. Greater private defined benefit pension wealth encourages earlier retirement, while greater de …

disadvantage in terms of income than their counterparts. What is less well understood is how they fare in terms of their wealth … and household wealth holdings. We find that overall disabled people have substantially lower household wealth and all … components of wealth (property, financial, pension, physical) than non-disabled people but even these average differences mask …

The theory of functional equations is used to clarify the relationship between equilibrium distributions of wealth and …

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 …

This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …