Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries … for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such tabular data …

substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …

multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

Although the literature on emission inequality is abundant, this study will differentiate itself by focusing on … measures on emission inequality based on household characteristics as well as decompose it into sources of emission. Employing … emission inequality tends to decline until the middle quintiles but then further increases in expenditure level and worsens …