inequality indices building on results provided by Ibragimov and Müller (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2010), and … they and Midões and de Crombrugghe (Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023) evaluate its performance. We highlight a feature … inference for inequality indices. …

Empirical analyses on income and wealth inequality and those in other fields in economics and finance often face the … of the recently developed \textit{t}-statistic based robust inference approaches in the analysis of inequality measures … equality of two parameters of interest (e.g., a test of equality of inequality measures in two regions or countries considered …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …

societal income inequality, poverty, polarization and societal segmentation are examined. What emerges for the Eurozone as an … behaviour. However, in the face of increasing overall Eurozone inequality, constituent nations were becoming increasingly …

This paper applies the tool box measures of disaggregative income inequality characterization and the statistical …

published by statistical agencies as measures of the distribution of income inequality - to calculate how large a survey sample …