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 …

The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several …

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

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …

yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for … corrections confirm the inequality-neutral impact of pensions in Mexico, and equalizing impacts of transfers, direct taxes …

Income inequality is rising but there seems to be no clear-cut effect on redistribution preferences, which is …-regarding motives. This study follows prior theorization presuming that the effect of inequality is transmitted through normative value … judgements, but argues that a central point has been neglected. Individuals support a certain level of inequality caused by …

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. …