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Prevailing measures on the topics of monetary and non-monetary poverty—as well as
economic and carbon inequality—are being critically assessed under sustainable …

What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get
poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …

IN THE TRADITIONAL analyses of inequality, individuals are characterized and ordered by
a specific set of welfare attributes in which they share. Kolm (1977) formalized the intuitively …

I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from
tax return data (for the 'rich') and household survey data (for the 'non‐rich'), taking advantage …

Eight explanations for UK income inequality trends between 1971 and 1986 are assessed
by pooling evidence from inequality index decompositions by population sub-group and by …

There is a mismatch between the results provided by income distribution theory and the
demands of empirical measurement practice, and that mismatch concerns the treatment of …

This article provides an introduction to methods for the measurement of economic inequality.
It reviews the inequality measures that economists have developed, and explains how one …

In this paper we consider the use of bootstrap methods to compute interval estimates and
perform hypothesis tests for decomposable measures of economic inequality. Two …

This paper explores a natural decomposition property motivated by Shorrocks (1980,
Econometrica48, 613–625) and Anand (1983,“Inequality and poverty in Malaysia,” Oxford …