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 …

The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … inequality analyses with a larger conceptualization of "morphology of inequality," not reduced to a Gini (or the like) measure. …

fuel poverty explanatory factors in Egypt and Jordan. First, we use the "Low income - High Consumption" indicator to … measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a multivariate statistical approach to untangle the fuel poor household … profile. Then, to explore the factors driving the risk of falling into fuel poverty situations we use a logistic regression …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …

) whereby narrow targeting of social transfers aimed at increasing their redistributive (poverty) impact has the perverse effect … of increasing poverty over the medium term due to decreasing public support for such spending. However, empirical support …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities … to fill this gap, focussing on whether there has been convergence of income inequality among EU regions, and on to what … level of income inequality, so becoming equally more unequal. Second, this process is significantly faster when regions …

Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …