fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well … multidimensional wellbeing at the top which has important policy implications …

This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used … a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of … rankings differs with respect to the measures of multidimensional affluence considered …

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper … considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the …