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 …

This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We … start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based …

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 …

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …

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 … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …

Theil’s information-theoretic approach to the measurement of inequality (Theil 1967) is set in the context of … inequality measures. It is thus closely related to a number of other commonly used families of inequality measures. …