literature, we then discuss existing inequality of opportunity measures consistent with these criteria, we show their …

This paper discusses asymptotic and bootstrap inference methods for a set of inequality and progressivity indices. The …

disparities. Comparing polarization and inequality, we find similarities, but also some differences. Our results therefore … underscore the importance of studying polarization as distinct from traditional inequality. …

of German data which causes significant increases of income inequality compared with income-independent, constant … equivalence scales. (2) Concerning different demarcations of income areas the pattern of income inequality in Germany 1995-2009 is … not distinctively changed in the several variants considered. (3) For three alternative inequality indicators out of the …

Fiscal policy can change poverty and inequality substantially or slightly depending on the government’s redistributive … and human capital accumulation, as well as with reducing inequality. The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) evaluates … independent evaluations. CEQ relies on inequality, poverty and tax and benefit incidence analyses. …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … Venezuela started the 1990-2008 sample window with lower levels of inequality, so to some extent recent reductions in inequality …

In the paper, a combined approach is used to test for inequality differences of several well-being categories for a … number of groups of persons. Hereby, total inequality is decomposed into within- and into between-group/category inequality … (via a normalised coefficient of variation as the used inequality indicator). The decompositions are categorised into those …

dominance and it selects the preferred distribution by all social evaluation functions that are monotonic and display inequality …