The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the … completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of …

distinguishing income and wealth inequality. …

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more … than 70 countries during the 1960-2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro …-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The … disposable income distributions evolved over time. The results indicate that polarization increased in all the considered …

Mandelbrot (1960) proposed using the so-called Pareto-Lévy class of distributions as a framework for representing … income distributions. We argue in this paper that the Pareto-Lévy distribution is an interesting candidate for representing …

distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database … interpretations of these measures. For income distributions, the barycenter represents the expected recipient of one unit of income …'s countries. We conclude that the barycenter is a new measure of the location or central tendency of distributions, which may have …

-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of … the ranking of distributions implied by the non-deprivation quasi-ordering. We extend the approach to the measurement of … 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 …

episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …