unemployment rate, the average unemployment duration, and the inequality in the unemployment durations - to the differences between … the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes …

This paper quantifies the impact of borrowing constraints on consumption and earnings inequality in a life-cycle model … inference to estimate the model parameters, and show that wealth inequality causes both placement into lower-paying jobs as well …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

as well off as he could be by undertaking inter-period income transfers. There is long-term ex-post inequality of …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of …. Complications arising from both the poverty and inequality rankings of distributions when the aggregate size of the population is … and ethical appeal, there are problems involved in variable population comparisons of poverty and inequality which deserve …

According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional … framework, inequality between poverty dimensions is traditionally treated as association sensitivity. Such an approach, however … introduces a new property for dealing with inequality that accounts for both efficiency as well as distributive justice. Based on …