concern that will result in political instability and social resentment. Persistence in inequality can further undermine … analyses inequality persistence for a sample of 60 countries from 1984 to 2015. The authors conclude that inequality is … persistent and Government redistribution polices through taxes and transfers did not significantly reduce inequality persistence. …

multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

This paper investigates the dynamics associated with inequality in EU member states. The variation of the Gini …-demographic environment and historical, political and cultural environment. The use of the panel data regression model allows country specific … paper proposes a new approach to the economic growth paradigm, based on reversing the dynamics of income inequality in the …

United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …

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 …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural …

This paper focusses on income inequality in Asia, its drivers and policies to combat it. It finds that income … inequality has risen in most of Asia, in contrast to many other regions. While in the past, rapid growth in Asia has come with … equity" miracle. There is a growing consensus that high levels of inequality can hamper the pace and sustainability of growth …

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …