This note provides simple tests for first-order bi-polarization orderings of distributions of living standards. In … tests of bi-polarization. …

This paper tackles the issues of social polarization and income polarization in several North American, European and … comparing both types of polarization can help predict the level of redistribution in those countries. We thus propose an …. Only countries where social polarization ranking and income polarization ranking differ are considered. As a result, we …

This paper explores the link between polarization and inequality and proposes some analytical methods to decompose the … even if inequality has increased sharply during the last two decades, the pure polarization component was remained constant … Duclos, Esteban, and Ray (2004) polarization index by population groups or income sources. In some cases, the decomposition …

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

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 …

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 …

source on inequality in total income. This note extends the methodology to take into account income variability. …

multidimensional poverty within and between sub-groups of population, and to determine the dimensions that tend to increase inequality … in poverty. The goal of this article is double. Firstly, we present the combined methodology to study the inequality in …