inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simpli?es the calculations …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …

societal income inequality, poverty, polarization and societal segmentation are examined. What emerges for the Eurozone as an … behaviour. However, in the face of increasing overall Eurozone inequality, constituent nations were becoming increasingly …

This paper presents an analysis of changes in the distribution of gross household income and income inequality over the … period. We also estimate the effects of each of these factors on changes in various summary measures of inequality over the …), attributes, and employment outcomes each contribute to the observed increase in inequality, while the changes in returns are …

what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several … circumstances, importantly both parental income and own IQ, are important for long-run income inequality, but that variations in … individual effort account for the most part of that inequality. …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …