, 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. …

, 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. …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

inequality by considering the corresponding relative and absolute ethical inequality indices. …

This paper explores, in the context of the Atkinson inequality measure, attempts to make interpretations of orders of … useful intuitive description for people who want some idea of what an inequality measure ‘actually means'. In contrast with … additional approach is to obtain the ‘pivotal income', above which a small increase for any individual increases inequality. The …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …

This paper reviews the theory and application of decomposition techniques in the context of spatial inequality. It …

In the age of globalization, the question whether inequality in the world rose or fell down, is a hot topic. Leading … scholars in the field of economic inequality measurement developed methods to estimate empirically the distribution of welfare … no doubt that world inequality went down between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, has in fact calculated population …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …