implications regarding inequality. This paper derives a relation between a Lorenz Curve and the modality of its underlying income … Inequality Database underlines the relevance of the theoretical result: Curve-fitting of decile data based on criteria such as … ; Modality ; Inequality ; Goodness of Fit …

. It implies that persistent wealth inequality depends on the probability of intergenerational upward mobility relative to … wealth inequality. It also implies workers' children can have sufficient entrepreneurial wealth with greater or less … given measure of stationary wealth inequality. Conditions are given on environmental-historical and endowed abilities that …

distribution of a function of random variables, and choosing between two or more distributions. To illustrate the procedures we …

Income distribution analysis can be conducted from the point of view of the comparisons between different geographical … several conclusions concerning the differentiation of income inequality, poverty and wealth for the households of farmers in … different macro-regions. The analysis uses the Gini inequality index and selected poverty and wealth indicators. The basis for …

This paper revisits the fitting of parametric distributions to earned income data. In line with Camilo Dagum's dictum …

This paper studies the inequality in the distribution of social interaction profiles among individuals. An interaction … index, that allows to ranks all the in-between configurations according to the level of inequality in interaction profiles … they exhibit. The Gini Exposure index extends the well-known inequality Gini coefficient to the multi-variate setting and …

In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are … estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to … calculate measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992-2010. Changes in these measures …

Order discrimination curves are derived to refine the first one by taking into account inequality and/or efficiency in the … indices. We use standard economic size distributions to recover closed forms of discrimination curves. The main results are …

inequality. The paper proceeds by exploring a set of two-parameter continuous probability distributions widely used in economic …, characterized by special income distributions, whenever inequality disrupts social harmony and social cohesion, it attacks on two …Social scientists study two kinds of inequality: inequality between persons (as in income inequality) and inequality …

distributions, which we call the mirror-exponential and the ring-exponential. Both the standard exponential and the ring(2 … form and inequality of the wage distribution …