The current financial turbulence in Europe inspires and perhaps requires researchers to
rethink how to measure incomes, wealth, and other parameters of interest to policy-makers …

In this work we apply a new approach to assess contributions from factor components to
income inequality. The new approach is based on the insight that most (synthetic) inequality …

Zenga's new inequality curve and index are two recent tools for measuring inequality.
Proposed in 2007, they should thus not be mistaken for anterior measures suggested by the …

В статье показано многообразие показателей неравенства, используемых
международными исследовательскими организациями и статистическими службами …

IY and the synthetic () IY inequality indexes proposed by Zenga in 2007 are considered.
These indexes can be decomposed into the contributions of income sources and/or into the …

Decomposition by sources of the Gini, Bonferroni and Zenga inequality indexes Page 16
Statistica & Applicazioni-Vol. XI, n. 2, 2013, pp. 133-161 DECOMPOSITION BY SOURCES OF …

​ This is the first book that performs international and intertemporal comparisons of uniform
tax progression with empirical data. While conventional measures of tax progression suffer …

Abstract Micro-data of European Union (EU) countries show that capital incomes account for
a large part of disparity in populations and follow heavy-tailed distributions in many EU …

This paper proposes a deep generalisation for income inequality indices. A generalised
income inequality index that depends on two parameters and that involves a large set of …

The observed increase in economic inequality, where the major concern is relative to the
huge growth of the highest incomes, motivates to revisit classical measures of inequality and …