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 …

variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …

distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database …

inequality (how the composition of income between capital and labor varies along income distribution). Capitalism may be seen to … countries over the past 25 years, we show that higher compositional inequality is associated with higher inter …-personal inequality. Nordic countries are exceptional because they combine high compositional inequality with low inter …

household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the …. LIS data allow us to decompose the trajectory of the Gini coefficient from primary to disposable income inequality in … LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality (LLBIFR Dataset on Income Inequality 2017) allows …

Central European nations has introduced greater income inequality than in long-time capitalist nations at similar stages of … development. In the empirical analysis I use comparable inequality data from the Luxembourg Income Study, hold constant a number … of general causal determinants of inequality, and show that such inequality in Eastern and Central Europe is …