changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income … suggested 'Palma ratio' dividing the income share of the top 10 per cent income earners by that of the bottom 40 per cent's. …

of hidden (or partially hidden) inequality and how the Palma may be useful in bringing this to light in the parts of the …This paper revisits the earlier assessments of the Palma Proposition and the ‘Palma Ratio’. The former is a proposition … that currently changes in income or consumption inequality are (almost) exclusively due to changes in the share of the …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …