Following Milanovic's (1997) paper [Economics Letters, vol. 56, p. 45-49], we propose a simple way to compute the Gini …

The purpose of this paper is to extend Dagum’s Gini decomposition (“A New Approach to the Decomposition of the Gini …

Sen [1976] with the Gini index of poverty gap ratio, that is, a fundamental component of Sen’s poverty index. The problem … is that this Gini index does not offer any information on the determinants of the inequalities. For this purpose, Mussard … [2004] introduced the bidimensional decomposition of the Gini ratio, where both sub-groups and income sources are jointly …

Gini and entropy are the most use measures to gauge income inequalities. We show that each measure yields different … subgroup decomposition techniques into within-group inequalities and between-group inequalities. Then, we show that the Gini …

unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after …