On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and …