the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …

occurred along the income distribution, and reversed increases in inequality. A notable shortcoming across many countries was …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

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

-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …

inequality by considering the corresponding relative and absolute ethical inequality indices. …

This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is … Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …

Does uncertainty of labor earning over the life-time increase income inequality? - This paper finds that there is a … direct positive relationship between life-time uncertainty and income inequality. Earlier studies single out the effect of … their rapid economic growth, inequality has been decreased in those countries. The degree of earning uncertainty can be …

Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints …