indicate that survey response probabilities are negatively associated with income and bias the measurement of inequality … that this problem biases the measurement of income inequality. This paper tests this assumption and compares the … downward. Correcting for this bias with reweighting, the Gini coefficient for Europe is revised upwards by 3.7 percentage …

variety of biases related to survey design, income measurement and post-survey data adjustments. The paper corrects for …

This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic …

This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic …

(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean …

impact on these three types of indicators. Our empirical investigation, based on 2008 data for Luxembourg, shows in fact that …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …

empirical illustration is based on 2008 data for Luxembourg. -- Bi-polarization ; income sources ; inequality ; Luxembourg …