and inequality. …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …

This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in …; disparities in income inequality between male- and female-headed households are largely explained by education, the share of … gender-based inequality in Cameroon. …

investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the … interpretation of measured levels of inequality, and differences in inequality at the top and bottom of the national distributions …

This paper examines pay inequality in Turkish manufacturing annually from 1980 to 2001. Using the between …-group component of Theil's T statistic, we decompose the evolution of inequality by geographic region, province, sub-sector and by … East-West distinction both for private and public sectors. The decompositions show that while inequality remains …

, it is shown that the inequality of that distribution is stable and that its degree of polarization has a decreasing trend …. Next, the paper analyses the changes in the inequality between permanent and temporary employees and between those with or … distribution within these worker categories. Finally, the paper shows that the share of regional differences in the inequality of …

This paper analyzes the relationship between bipolarization and inequality, welfare and poverty measures. First, we … clarify the similarities and differences between bipolarization and inequality measures. Second, it is shown that …

Let us assume a revenue- and inequality-neutral flat tax reform shifting from a graduated-rate tax. Is this reform … really distributional neutral? Traditionally, there has been a bias toward the inequality analysis, forgetting other relevant …, even though inequality remains unchanged. This paper shows that polarization is a useful tool for characterizing this set …

An inequality measure is consistent if it ranks distributions the same irrespective of whether health quantities are … represented in terms of attainment or shortfalls. This consistency property severely restricts the set of admissible inequality … condition, the restrictions onthe admissible inequality measures disappear. …