This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We … start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based … on the concept of 'complaints' or distances between incomes. We examine the Temkin approach by means of the questionnaire …

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …

Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard … axioms of distributional comparison. Moreover, there are significant differences in the 'maps' of inequality and risk …

Using a simple axiomatic structure we characterise two classes of inequality indices - absolute and relative - that …

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …

This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We … start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based … on the concept of 'complaints' or distances between incomes. We examine the Temkin approach by means of the questionnaire …

Recent insights from the philosopher Larry Temkin have suggested a new basis for the measurement of income inequality …, founded on the notion of individual “complaints” about income distribution. Under certain specifications of the relationship … between complaints and personal incomes it can be shown that a concept similar to the concept of deprivation then emerges. In …