The generalized entropy class of inequality indices is derived for Generalized Beta of the Second Kind (GB2) income … distributions, thereby providing a full range of topsensitive and bottom-sensitive measures. An examination of British income … inequality in 1994/95 and 2004/05 illustrates the analysis. …

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more … than 70 countries during the 1960–2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro …-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality …

disparities. Comparing polarization and inequality, we find similarities, but also some differences. Our results therefore … underscore the importance of studying polarization as distinct from traditional inequality. …We analyze polarization in India roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption expenditure data. We show …

In this paper, it will be shown that polarization not only depends on identification and alienation. There exist … compute it. Consistent with this idea and with the basic principles of polarization of Esteban and Ray (1994), we define a … measure of polarization as the product of three factors: the alienation-identification, the share of power of the groups and …

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …

inequality measurement is applied. The proposed relative income change measures allude to the intuitive concept of the proportion …

Our paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by … showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income countries have generated progressively more … which distant countries become progressively closer and comparisons among them more intense and relevant. Our findings may …

In this paper, taking as starting point the link between polarization and dispersion, we reformulate the measure of … polarization of Zhang and Kanbur (2001) using the decomposition of the variance instead of the decomposition of the Theil index … provides an alternative way to analyze polarization by household characteristics and at the same time allows us to compare sub …

This paper attempts to combine the analysis of wage (income) polarization with that of wage (income) mobility. Using … the polarization index PG recently proposed by Deutsch et al. (2007) it shows that, when taking the identity of the … individuals into account (working with panel data), a distinction can be made between a change over time in polarization that is …

the „alienation? component of polarization. An ordering for ranking alternative distributions of income using such …An abbreviated or reduced-form monotonic polarization index is an increasing function of the between-group term and a … decreasing function of the within-group term of a population subgroup decomposable inequality index. The between-group term …