Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001 …) we investigate wheather paople's perceptions of income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried …. The responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inquality - e.g. increased …

responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased …Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001 …) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out …

: inequality and polarisation. A new middle class index (MCI), based on polarisation methods, is used to assess the evolution of … and its connection with inequality. To this purpose Brazil's income distribution is explored from two dimensions … prevented the achievement of high inequality values and the emergence of a middle class. Then in the early twentieth century …

large sample of countries. In the period 1960-2000 welfare inequality across countries appears stable as the result of … increasing inequality in per capita GDP and decreasing inequality in life expectancy. However, the estimated distribution … (almost all OECD countries). Such tendencies to polarisation are expected to strengthen in the future. In terms of the world …

, inequalities in responsiveness have received less attention in health economics. This paper examines inequality and polarisation in …. In order to respect the inherently ordinal nature of the responsiveness data, median-based measures of inequality and … polarisation are employed. The results suggest that, in the face of wide differences in the health systems analysed, there exists …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

Given that well-being is a concave function of income, inequality is inefficient from a utilitarian perspective. This …

We study how the distribution of income among members of society, and income inequality in particular, affects social … income, and decreases (increases) with income inequality if and only if environmental goods and manufactured goods are … income inequality. We derive adjustment factors for benefit transfer to control for differences in income distributions …

United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …