This paper applies generalized Lorenz analysis to income distributions of ten countries using advanced statistical procedures to construct confidence bands around estimates and to generate truncated generalized Lorenz curves to construct a poverty ordering of the countries.

Relative poverty lines such as one-half of median income have been widely used in poverty comparisons. The U.S. government has also been urged to adopt the notion of relative poverty lines. This paper contributes to the literature by developing statistical inferences for testing poverty measures...

The goal of this paper is threefold. First, to make stochastic dominance comparisons as well as Lorenz orderings for five European countries. Second, to analyze the changes in distributions across time, and third, to explore whether there is evidence of convergence or divergence in European...

This paper applies an extended Lorenz dominance welfare principle to make and compare estimates of the overall progressivity of taxes and transfers for Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the U.S.

Uses LIS microdata to construct Lorenz-type curves in order to make ordinal comparisons of tax two types of progressivity 'residual' and 'liability'. This analysis is applied to investigate the redistributive effect of direct taxes in six countries.