inequality-reducing transfers are captured when transfers occur from higher-income donors to lower-income recipients, which … inclusions, the Gini decomposition, and on the use of the generalized entropy index. …

Income inequality measures involve two sub-classes of decomposable measures: those decomposed by sub-groups and those … the inequality related to each factor of income (labour income, capital income, social taxes, etc.). The aim of this …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based … compares inequality rankings across a number of different approaches and finds considerable sensitivity to the choice between …

inequality of income and expenditure over that period. The paper calculates Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves and also the … examines the composition of changes in inequality of income over the period. …

. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …

Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern … address this question. In particular, we examine whether attitudes to inequality differ between East and West even after the … inequality and other determinants of attitudes are taken into account. These results do not seem to be driven by a recent change …

, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …