. Inequality between global citizens is estimated at 70 Gini points rather than 65 as before. The richest decile receives 57 …

and Public Policy -- provides a critical review of the economic literature on equality and inequality of opportunity. A … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of …

Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income … migration is probably the most powerful tool for reducing global poverty and inequality. …

This paper extends the Inequality Possibility Frontier approach in two methodological directions. It allows the social … minimum to increase with the average income of a society, and it derives all the Inequality Possibility Frontier statistics … for two other inequality measures besides the Gini. Finally, it applies the framework to contemporary data, showing that …

This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 …

Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries …-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 … countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and …

Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … inequality in predicting life satisfaction. The analysis finds that income inequality has a negative and significant effect on …