On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

Is income inequality tending to fall in countries with high inequality and to rise in those where inequality is low? Is … there a process of convergence toward medium-level inequality? …

Is income inequality tending to fall in countries with high inequality and to rise in those where inequality is low? Is … there a process of convergence toward medium-level inequality? Comparing changes in inequality with initial levels, using … new data, Ravallion finds that within-country inequality in income or per capita consumption is converging toward medium …

How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one …, with biases going in both directions. Conceptual issues further cloud the picture. The claim that global inequality has … inequality is found to be rising if one or more of the following conditions holds: (i) one attaches a high ethical weight to the …

lack of data for nonrespondents has hindered efforts to correct for the bias in measures of poverty and inequality … inequality, but has only a small impact on poverty incidence up to commonly used poverty lines in the United States. This paper … methods of measuring poverty and inequality from survey data …

inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …