societies occupy top positions in inequality rankings, redistribution levels tend to be lower. We combine survey and … inequality, focusing on two channels, fairness views and communication. First, we confirm the finding that inequality resulting … from differences in merit is more accepted than inequality due to luck or factors outside of individual control. We also …

This paper seeks to understand whether the way in which inequality is communicated through measurements influences … individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …, such as the Gini coefficient, fall short of providing an intuitive understanding of inequality for most people. Following …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality’s actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …

review of recent research, consideration of how inequality is discussed in legal documents, and an analysis of inequality … using household survey data from Viet Nam. Inequality is widely mentioned in legal documents. As of May 2024, there are 443 … expenditure and income inequality using household surveys. Using VHLSS data, we measure inequality in different welfare indicators …

A substantial amount of research has been conducted examining inequality in South Africa using multiple data sources … estimate income and consumption inequality in South Africa between 1993 and 2017, and we discuss the comparability of income … and consumption measures across surveys. We compare our estimates of inequality to those in the World Income Inequality …

Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to … increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their … believe that inequality in their neighbourhood is too high and that circumstances beyond their control explain why some people …

This paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional … literature-a single inequality indicator. Results suggest that total income inequality and institutional trust are positively … associated but this aggregated result hides some troubling countervailing effects. In fact, when the whole profile of inequality …