This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where …, inequality and mobility. To this end, we employ an axiomatic approach to justify the introduction of a generalized family of rank …-dependent measures of inequality, where the distributional weights, as opposed to the Mehran-Yaari family, depend on income shares as …

This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during … 1980-90. The results suggest that inequality is greater in the United States than in the Scandinavian countries and that … this inequality ranking of countries remains unchanged when the accounting period of income is extended from one to eleven …

This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during … the 1980s. The results demonstrate that inequality is greater in the United States than in the Scandinavian countries and … that the ranking of countries with respect to inequality remains unchanged when the accounting period of income is extended …