Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for different minimum wage levels on the basis of a … will only have a minor impact on inequality among households with at least one minimum-wage worker. Low wage earners are …

and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …

inequality and dynastic poverty persistence : Germany and the United States compared / Veronika V. Eberharter -- Measuring … inequality with ordinal data: a note / Buhong Zheng -- Multidimensional unit- and subgroup-consistent inequality and poverty … distributions : a note on intermediate inequality indices / Coral del R(c)Øio, Olga Alonso-Villar -- The Bonferroni, Gini, and De …

, which were presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Sicily, July 2011 … distributional analysis, and the axiomatic approach to multidimensional inequality. Empirical studies include occupational and … residential segregation, regional convergence, impact of variable of equivalence scales on income inequality, earnings and …

INTRODUCTION -- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America … -- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS -- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3 …. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile since 1850 -- Chapter 4. What Human Heights Can Explain about the …