We examine the relationship between changes in a country’s public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and …-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living … rising inequality at the top. The data also weakly suggest a decrease in inequality at the bottom. The distributional impact …

distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database …

We present two Gini-like inequality indices that provide a more nuanced picture of how the profile of inequality has … that austerity increased income inequality in eurozone countries, but reduced income inequality in countries that do not …

Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality …

presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …