United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … income ; inequality ; poverty … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for … for cross-national comparisons. -- alternative equivalence scale ; Germany ; USA ; distribution of income ; inequality …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find … that whether SAH inequality is greater in the US or in China depends on the concept of status and the inequality …

time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …