Additive decomposability is an interesting feature of inequality indices which, however, is not always fulfilled … paper, we apply these methods, based on the “Shapley value” and the “balance of inequality” respectively, to the Bonferroni … inequality index. We also discuss a comparison with the Gini concentration index and highlight interesting properties of the …

population subgroups for total income inequality. Moreover, we show that existing methods are unsuitable to decompose the trend …