In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …

utilitarian social welfare function yields a simple welfare measure which comprises both GDP and income inequality as measured by …

advantage generates a “Gini admissible” personal inequality index. The mean value of such an index across individuals equals the … inequality in various ranges of the income distribution. Applications to the Kuznets transformation in developing countries, to …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …