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different groups in the UK, and the consequences that these changes have for income inequality and for measures of deprivation … and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK …
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Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …
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This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …
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This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …
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It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...
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This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We … start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based …
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This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …
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What has happened to average incomes, inequality, poverty, jobs and pay since 2009 and since 2019? How does the UK …
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In this report, we analyse the current state of the education system in England and set out the key challenges that the next government will inherit. This is not just a tale of despair. Compared with many other developed countries, England's education system does well in terms of student...
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In this report, we document differences in pension incomes and pension saving between men and women in the UK, and analyse the drivers behind these differences. In particular, we examine two different 'gender pension gaps'. First is the gap in average private and state pension incomes between...
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