This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of … different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …

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

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 …

Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates … per capita affect income inequality and how they differ. The results suggest a U-shaped relationship of both measures of … GDP per capita is used, inequality is higher, leading to the conclusion that countries with policies that inflate GDP …

presence of incidental trends in panel unit root test setting is ubiquitous. …

inequality - beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic institutions, for example …,731 U.S. citizens, we show that a majority of respondents believe that inequality leads to a wide range of negative societal … video information treatments. With this and other methods we show that inequality externality beliefs impact redistributive …

trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when …

deprivation. Weighting deprivation and advantage differently produces a family of "Gini admissible" personal inequality indexes … in income distribution are analyzed. During economic development traditional sector people may view inequality as … constantly increasing while others believe the opposite. Personal views about polarization and rising inequality are also …