increase. Changes in the composition of the workforce explain less than 25% of the rise in wage inequality. However …

The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality … multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …

In most welfare analyses, especially in the literature on normative inequality measurement, it is a commonplace to …

Mexico and its effect on inequality and on polarization, and this during the period of 2002-2012. What distinguishes this …-tax income inequality. Based on our estimates, we find a significant increase in the progressivity of the fiscal system over time …, despite the high persistent levels of polarization and inequality in the country. Finally, we find that imposing the common …

The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … investigate the problem of source decomposition of inequality measures, the so-called additive income sources inequality games … income sources inequality games provide dual results compared with Chantreuil and Trannoy's ones. We also investigate the …

We develop a model of child labour where poverty and inequality combine to determine policy response to child labour … wealth inequality, benefit from adopting child labour laws. This is because such laws commit an economy with either of those …

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 …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them …