This paper aims to present an assessment of changes in inequality and well-being differences across the Spanish regions … Continuous Survey 2000, we analyze inequality differences and trends, the changes in the structure of inequality and the … convergence process. We also use abbreviated social welfare functions in order to capture regional differences and their changes …

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … ‘inequality convergence’ with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has …

Countries differ widely with respect to the level of labour income inequality among individuals of working age. Labour … income inequality is shaped by differences in wage rates, hours worked and inactivity rates. Individual labour income … inequality is the main driver of household market income inequality, with family formation as well as self-employment and capital …

Income variablity reduces social welfare if individuals are risk averse, and it is likely to increase inequality if … inequality than on welfare. This is because apart from its impact on inequality, risk reduces the certainty equivalent income of … poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of inequality and …

maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute …