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 …

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 …

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. …

Inequality measures are often presented in the form of a rank ordering to highlight their relative magnitudes. However …, a rank ordering may produce misleading inference, because the inequality measures themselves are statistical estimators …. Within this setting, if differences between several inequality measures are simultaneously and statistically insignificant …

statistics such as relative poverty, inequality measures and indicators of polarization, with relative ease and a limited time …

over time. Growth is sometimes accompanied by rising and sometimes by falling inequality. Applied economists have come to …, inequality rose in the United States and fell markedly in Brazil. …