Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …

, contemporary empirical studies of income inequality are typically based on observations of income for one or a few years. This … inequality in current and lifetime income. We apply these results to assess the role of so-called life-cycle bias in empirical … analysis of income inequality that uses current income variables as proxies for lifetime income. Our results suggest that …

curves which was proved to characterize two separate systems of nested subfamilies of inequality measures. This paper uses … the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … ranking of a set of Lorenz curves. From the weight-functions of these inequality measures we obtain intuitive interpretations …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this … in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other … yield erroneous wealth inequality rankings of countries. …

The standard approach in empirical analyses of income distributions is to estimate income inequality in a country under … paper, we pursue two alternative approaches to measure inequality under restricted interpersonal comparability of income … indicates that both levels and trends in overall inequality as well as the inequality contributions of various income factors …