addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …

variables over the period 1970 to 2013. For the baseline simulation, the welfare gain for capital owners is 3.7% of per …-period consumption while workers suffer a welfare loss of 1.4%. Using counterfactual simulations, we find that both groups could have …

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 …

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the …

degree of heterogeneity in household preferences or beliefs is sufficient to match empirical measures of wealth inequality in …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element … of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus …, measures of inequality that ignore intrahousehold allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of …