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

responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased …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 …

large sample of countries. In the period 1960-2000 welfare inequality across countries appears stable as the result of … increasing inequality in per capita GDP and decreasing inequality in life expectancy. However, the estimated distribution … (almost all OECD countries). Such tendencies to polarisation are expected to strengthen in the future. In terms of the world …

, inequalities in responsiveness have received less attention in health economics. This paper examines inequality and polarisation in …. In order to respect the inherently ordinal nature of the responsiveness data, median-based measures of inequality and … polarisation are employed. The results suggest that, in the face of wide differences in the health systems analysed, there exists …

This paper aims to present an assessment of changes in inequality and well-being differences across the Spanish regions … Continuous Survey 2000, we analyze inequality differences and trends, the changes in the structure of inequality and the …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …