distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database …

different inequality measures yield varying results. Despite having higher absolute inequality, country clusters with extremely … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …-quality institutions generally do not differ much in terms of inequality outcomes. …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …

inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts and empirical … Income Inequality Database. A number of issues crucial to the studies of global income inequality are addressed. These are … the concepts, measurement and decomposition of inequality, the world distribution of income and inequality measured at …

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and … national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels … income inequality and income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts are …

In this work, we study the short- and long-run properties of different inequality series vis-à-vis the most important … facts about inequality. The broad picture emerging from our empirical analysis is one where some common patterns coexist … together with several country specificities. More specifically, most of inequality series are not stationary; long …

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and … national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional … inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in a selection of large countries measured by the size of their population …

. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …

Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern … address this question. In particular, we examine whether attitudes to inequality differ between East and West even after the … inequality and other determinants of attitudes are taken into account. These results do not seem to be driven by a recent change …

, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …