the book covers a range of technical aspects of inequality measurement, including less well-known properties of inequality … indices, and the decomposition of inequality changes into component contributions. The second half explores various aspects of …

It is often argued that an observation of rising annual income inequality need not have negative normative implications …. The argument is that if there has been a sufficiently large simultaneous increase in mobility, the inequality of income … measured over a longer time period can be lower despite the rise in annual inequality. In this paper, it is shown by example …