This paper considers new distributionally sensitive summary measures of wage differentials, not solely determined by the average wage of the average person but by differences across complete wage distributions. Considerations of risk or inequality aversion in the assessment of wage differentials...

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...

The persistent at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the EU's 11 primary indicators of social inclusion but it has received little attention compared to the current at-risk-of-poverty rate. Using the 2008 EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database, we compare persistent income...

This paper considers new ‘distributionally sensitive’ summary measures of wage differentials, not solely determined by “the average wage of the average person†but by differences across complete wage distributions. Considerations of risk or inequality aversion in the...

The persistent at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the EU’s 11 primary indicators of social inclusion but it has received little attention compared to the current at-risk-of-poverty rate. Using the 2008 EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database, we compare persistent...