1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based … compares inequality rankings across a number of different approaches and finds considerable sensitivity to the choice between …

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 …

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …

. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …

-led engagement in non-agricultural activities would be inequality-decreasing through increasing the incomes of the poorer parts of … the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification …

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 …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

income inequality and lower costs of factor mobility. In some countries, larger market income inequality has been met by an …, larger market inequality has been accompanied by a reduction in transfers, thus leading to growth in disposable income … inequality. In our model, the initial level of market income inequality is crucial in explaining how an increase in this variable …