On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

This paper examines the sensitivity of inequality and poverty measures to the choice of adult equivalence scales and …

debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

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

conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues considered are the space in which gender inequality in well … measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is necessarily the … goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of agency …

Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper, we address this shortcoming by developing a new … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two idely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …

Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …