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Much of the literature on inequality, both that on the theoretical features of inequality measurement and that on the … distributions. The paper focuses on the measurement of inequality itself and includes an application to European data on wealth. We …, grounding their use in socio-economic theory and highlighting the connections between them. In particular, we investigate how …
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Despite a general trend of increasing labour income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity and even direction of these changes across OECD countries. These stylized facts have led to numerous studies about the main determinants of labour income inequality and, as a...
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The extent to which income inequality and poverty vary within countries across different regions is very relevant for policy decisions and monitoring. However, sub-national measures are scarce, given the complexity of producing indicators at the regional level from the available data and the...
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