Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries …, three mobility concepts illustrate how properties that appear innocuous in industrial country analysis become problematic … when downward mobility includes descents into destitution. For origin-independence measures-the most widely used in …

multidimensional inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate …The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … on the share of the population that are more relatively deprived. It follows the dominance approach to making inequality …

inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate inequality. Some …The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … and follows the dominance approach to making inequality comparisons. By focusing on those below a multidimensional …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and … methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …