to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

, 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. …

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena … countries. We exploit the scale-independence property of proper inequality metrics to evaluate not only the total but also the … inequality-affecting (shape-influenced) convergence of distributions. …

research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main … that income inequality is perceived very differently depending on openness to trade. The relevance of perceptions has wider …

Abstract This paper investigates the sources of inequality in household gross and net wealth across eight euro … a remarkable effect on wealth inequality that is stronger than the one of income differences. In Austria, Germany and … Cyprus the contribution of real and financial assets inherited or received as gifts to gross and net wealth inequality …

Approach to Decomposition This paper analyses how microeconomic factors drive inequality in household wealth across nine … have a considerable effect on wealth inequality that is on average stronger than that of income differences and other … or inter vivos transfers attains more than 30% to explained wealth inequality. The distribution of household …

The paper analyses economic inequality in Croatia in comparison with other transition economies of Central, East and … of income inequality. The decomposition analysis of the period 2000-2006 shows that, although the concentration of income … from paid employment was rising, overall stability of income inequality was due to a reduction of the more unequally …