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 …

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 …

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

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 …

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged …

development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work …, our results suggest that all finance variables increase income inequality. The level of financial development conditions … the impact of financial liberalization on inequality. Also the quality of political institutions conditions the impact of …