decomposition techniques of inequality measurement in a bivariate distribution context. Usually decomposed measures of inequality …

ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …

flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well-known Gini … inequality-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate …

poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as …, inequality or social welfare is greater in one distribution than in another for general classes of indices. We also derive the …

inequality and high redistributive effect for some specific figures of transfers. The contribution from Vertical Equity (VE) is …

path of inequality is not due to sam-pling variation. The secular trend in consumption expenditure inequality is found to … be downward sloped. Inequality declines sharply at the beginning of the century, increases during the great depression …

One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …