A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total …

the aggregate level, the main driver is equally income polarization, whereas the standard measure of inequality, the Gini …

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and … affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …

substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …