This paper examines the link between inequality and individual well-being using household survey data from 27 … Transition Economies, where income inequality increased considerably since 1989. A test of inequality aversion in individual … preferences that draws on the Fehr and Schmidt (QJE, 1999) specification of inequality aversion is proposed, and the difficulties …

This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …

This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling …. Within countries, we find evidence of an inverted U-shape curve for human capital inequality over time, namely a Kuznets … curve for human capital. At the global level, the world inequality in human capital has followed a similar trajectory, first …

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In this paper we measure inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil. For this purpose, we … al. (<CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2009</CitationRef>) to measure inequality in basic opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean …

inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality … avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from aggregate inequality indices such as the Gini and Theil reduces the … highly complex nature of global inequality to a single coefficient and makes it impossible to take a nuanced view of how …