The paper aims to analyse how income inequality affects social networks strength in fourteen European Countries. We … introduce some new evidences by using the ECHP for testing the networks-inequality nexus and being able to construct directly … inequality indices from the microdata as well their decomposition. In particular, we focus on two main point: firstly, we analyse …

There has been a renewed interest in recent years in income inequality, economic mobility, and income volatility. I … and time, which can be decomposed into an inequality component measuring dispersion in mean incomes, a volatility … inequality, volatility, and mobility over the last several decades in the United States. I also examine changes in the …

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the …

methods and show how they can be used to shed new light on `pro-poor growth' issues. …

sources and groups, and the growth rate of inequality decomposed by sources and groups. We demonstrate that the multi …We show in this paper that the growth rate of the Sen index is multi-decomposable, that is, decomposable simultaneously … by groups and income sources. The multi-decomposition of the poverty growth yields respectively: the growth rate of the …