concern that will result in political instability and social resentment. Persistence in inequality can further undermine … analyses inequality persistence for a sample of 60 countries from 1984 to 2015. The authors conclude that inequality is … persistent and Government redistribution polices through taxes and transfers did not significantly reduce inequality persistence. …

multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

This paper investigates the dynamics associated with inequality in EU member states. The variation of the Gini …-demographic environment and historical, political and cultural environment. The use of the panel data regression model allows country specific … paper proposes a new approach to the economic growth paradigm, based on reversing the dynamics of income inequality in the …

Additive decomposability is an interesting feature of inequality indices which, however, is not always fulfilled … paper, we apply these methods, based on the “Shapley value” and the “balance of inequality” respectively, to the Bonferroni … inequality index. We also discuss a comparison with the Gini concentration index and highlight interesting properties of the …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural …

changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …

method of moments (CU-GMM) estimators of dynamic panel models when the data is close to non-stationary. This case is far from … trivial, as a high degree of persistence is the norm rather than the exception in economic panels, particularly in financial …

Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality …

utilitarian social welfare function yields a simple welfare measure which comprises both GDP and income inequality as measured by …