implications regarding inequality. This paper derives a relation between a Lorenz Curve and the modality of its underlying income … Inequality Database underlines the relevance of the theoretical result: Curve-fitting of decile data based on criteria such as …

intra-household inequality magnifies or hampers the redistributive effect of the transfers, when the policy-maker focuses on … the inequality at the individual level. Depending on the type of the transfer, three properties capturing the idea that …

income inequality measurement level. Despite this increased interest, there is no rigorous measurement framework available in …

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and inequality …

This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds … using specific functional forms of the Social Welfare Function (SWF) to infer welfare judgments, the rationale for using …

presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …