Through the past few decades the problem of income inequality and welfare segregation has become quite significant for the economies of the countries worldwide. Republic of Macedonia as a country in development is presented with a serious challenge into decreasing the income inequality witch has...

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries since around 1990. We cope with the heterogeneity in the original information (regarding the measure of resources, equivalence scale, etc.) by focusing on the trends rather than on...