presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …

inequality for policymakers and citizens to track. …

Households can differ in size and needs. A reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore … by means of an inequality decomposition by household types. Country inequality rankings are sensitive to the conversion … strategy applied. The decomposition analysis reveals the underlying mechanisms. We find inequality estimates typically to be …

the relationship between income inequality and financial stability. Bordo and Meissner found that changes in income … inequality do not have an effect on the growth of credit. We extend their study by assessing the relationship between levels of … income inequality and leverage. We find that the relationship between inequality and credit is long-run, i.e. trending, in …

inequality. The social evaluation relation (SER) from which the index is derived is required to satisfy a weak version of the … problem of measuring multidimensional inequality is here interpreted to be essentially a problem of setting weights on the … obtain a specific SER. The Kolm index derived from this relation is then suggested as the multidimensional inequality index …

. A difficulty arises when inequality needs to be assessed. One may focus either on achievements or on shortfalls but the … respective inequality rankings may lead to contradictory results. Specifically, this paper concentrates on the poverty measure … proposed by Sen. According to this measure the inequality among the poor is captured by the Gini index. However, the rankings …