This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement andhas been prepared for inclusion …

underestimation of income inequality. At the regional level this shortcoming is even more eminent due to small regional sample sizes … provide new estimates of regional income inequality in Germany. Our findings indicate that inequality between and within the … of inequality in the tail. …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and … methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …

Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …-called Paroush approach and Item Response Theory. An empirical illustration follows, based on the 2019 Eurobarometer Survey. The …

address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U … of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … the forecasts, suggesting an important role for inequality on the path to eliminating extreme poverty …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …