conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

the minimum transactions costs before a welfare loss is experienced, or before income inequality is exacerbated. These two … has to reach the transferee in order to keep the degree of income inequality or the aggregate social welfare at the same … level. However, this conjecture is theoretically wrong for the degree of income inequality, and partly wrong for aggregate …

form, leaky-bucket transactions trace out the maximum "leakage" of transaction costs before income inequality is … transferee in order to keep the degree of income inequality or social welfare intact. However, in general, this conjecture is … inequality measures and their associated social welfare functions shows poor empirical evidence. Subjects' perceptions to …

facilities. The redistributive effects of the feed-in tariff are evaluated by means of various inequality indices. All the … inequality measures indicate that Germany's feed-in tariff is mildly regressive. …

time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …