The distribution of income and wealth in Germany grew increasingly unequal until the beginning of the financial crisis …. But inequality has not risen in either Germany or Switzerland since 2005. Nevertheless, Germans overestimate inequality …

measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index … the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes … impact on the results obtained. -- FGT Poverty Index ; Inequality ; Sen Pverty Index ; Shapley Decomposition ; Switzerland …