This paper adopts a counterfactual decomposition analysis to analyse cross-country differences in the size of household … wealth and levels of household wealth inequality. The findings of the paper suggest that the biggest share of cross …

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …

Theil’s information-theoretic approach to the measurement of inequality (Theil 1967) is set in the context of … inequality measures. It is thus closely related to a number of other commonly used families of inequality measures. …

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

Inequality measures are powerful tools of applied welfare analysis. However, to use the tools effectively one has to … statistical problems which are addressed here for both micro-data and group data. The theoretical properties of inequality …

Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard … axioms of distributional comparison. Moreover, there are significant differences in the 'maps' of inequality and risk …

"reduced-form" version that is expressed in terms of inequality and mean income. This shows the relationship between the … class of inequality measures that includes the Gini. These results do not require differentiability of the social …