fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality …

This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing … inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined through decomposition by income source and population subgroups … economy. The narrative on Chinese inequality now needs to focus on the reasons for this great turnaround …

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative … of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We … argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to changes in the between-country component. We find there is a …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …

This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian … these characteristics differentially impact on the risk of poverty in each group. A detailed decomposition of both effects … explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining …

-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe's most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …