one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. To this end, we also … inequality and relative poverty have deteriorated during the years of crises, implying that the country's response to economic … distribution, we show that income inequality and the risk of poverty increase with growth, implying that the benefits of growth …

The research on educational inequality plays an essential role in characterizing the fairness and effectiveness of … data set of educational inequality of 146 countries, from 1950 to 2010, and it is the first to present a Gini index of … country and for each age group. This approach can significantly improve the measurement of inequality in education by …

In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from … inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We … find evidence that inequality in subjective well-being has an inverse-U relationship with per capita GDP, but it is …

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of … global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During … ‘absolute' measures. The results mirror trends in global inequality over the same period …

Using the Standardized World Income Inequality Database, we examine if the KOF Index of Globalization and the Economic … Freedom Index of the Fraser institute are related to within- country income inequality using panel data covering around 80 … countries 1970-2005. Freedom to trade internationally is robustly related to inequality, also when adding several control …

inequality for the group of high-income countries, as measured by the Gini coefficient, stands at 37 in 2013 and has increased by … incomes and the bottom 10% falling behind. Rising inequality within the United States drives almost half of the inequality … increase among high-income countries, a combination of a sizeable rise in inequality and a population share around a third in …

standard error of the global Gini coefficient. Global income inequality among the citizens of 128 countries gradually declined …-country inequalities. The standard error of the global Gini coefficient is very small. After 1994, market income inequality in the EU28 was … at a level similar to market inequality in other parts of the world, but net inequality (after taxes and transfers) is at …

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of … global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During … 'absolute' measures. The results mirror trends in global inequality over the same period. …