inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively … that gives rise to this perverse effect of a transfer on inequality is a non-empty open subset of all preference profiles …. A robust example illustrates this result. -- a rank-preserving inequality-narrowing transfer ; the Gini coefficient …

inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively … that gives rise to this perverse effect of a transfer on inequality is a non-empty open subset of all preference profiles …. A robust example illustrates this result. -- A rank-preserving inequality-narrowing transfer ; The Gini coefficient …

There is a vast literature on the selection of an appropriate index of income inequality and on what desirable … properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Pareto distribution. But these income distribution functions (IDFs) continue to be described with a single index (such as the …

relative to low incomes. Conversely, it is rising inequality at the top that appears to drive the rise in the Gini index since …, the welfare effects of the different forces behind an increasing Gini index can be evaluated in light of the Lorenz-dominance … United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income …

This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing … inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than … twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago. However, neither hours worked nor education, industry, marital status, or …

Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion ….S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the …

This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure … inequality" as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. The paper reviews …

other two indices that they characterize as "competing:" the "relative deprivation (Yitzhaki Index)" of individual i, RDi … in the RDi index and the Ri index can be elicited from the RDi index, these two indices need not be viewed as competing …