market performance. We outline a means of quantifying the extent of any disparity, (polarisation), in the signals stemming … individual and household based workless measures. The polarisation count can be decomposed to identify which household groups are … worklessness among these household groups. We show that the incidence and magnitude of polarisation varies widely across countries …

Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001 …) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out … responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased …

show that there has been a growing disparity ¿ polarisation - between the individual and household based jobless measures …