mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …

flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional …

Using a simple axiomatic structure we characterise two classes of inequality indices - absolute and relative - that …

Recent insights from the philosopher Larry Temkin have suggested a new basis for the measurement of income inequality …

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …

This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …

This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We … start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based …

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …