A family of generalized entropy measures are employed and decomposed by household head's age, gender, education, ethnicity, and family size to investigate inequality within 13 countries for comparative analysis.

Income tax progression is studied using generalized entropy measures of inequality in eleven LIS countries in order to conduct international comparisons and analyses.

Short and long-run inequalities and income stability among households with male heads are measured and analyzed using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for 1969-81. The results suggest short-run inequalities are increasing over the period with fluctuations. These fluctuations contain transitory...

This paper demonstrates the usefulness of the decomposability property of the Generalized Entropy (GE) family of measures in comparing inequality among countries. A family of Generalized Entropy measures are decomposed by family size and by the household head's age, gender, education, and...