association in times of growth and recession. We develop a novel decomposition method that focuses on isolating the roles played … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …

Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that … generating performance inequality. …

integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement which measures the extent to which disparities in realized health are …The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these … systematically associated with income. It develops a rank dependent inequality index that considers not only inequalities in expected …

There is a vast literature on the selection of an appropriate index of income inequality and on what desirable … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … description of inequality inherent in empirical income distributions with extreme values. …

Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition … method to unravel the contributions of income growth, income inequality and differential income mobility across socio … Conditions (SILC) for the period 2004-2012. We find a modest rise in health inequality by income in Spain in the five years of …