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On a family of achievement and shortfall inequality indices

Satya Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Conchita D’Ambrosio

Informal-formal wage gaps in Colombia

Nancy Daza Báez and Luis Gamboa

Inequality from a global perspective: An alternative approach

Peter Edward and Andy Sumner

Top incomes and the measurement of inequality in Egypt

Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme

The occupational segregation of Black women in the United States: A look at its evolution from 1940 to 2010

Olga Alonso-Villar and Coral del Rio Otero

The binomial Gini inequality indices and the binomial decomposition of welfare functions

Silvia Bortot and Ricardo Alberto Marques Pereira

Cross-sectional and longitudinal equivalence scales for West Germany based on subjective data on life satisfaction

Jürgen Faik

The decomposition of well-being categories: An application to Germany

Jürgen Faik and Uwe Fachinger

Is it all about the tails? The Palma measure of income inequality

Alex Cobham and Andrew Sumner

Counterfactual decomposition of pro-poorness using influence functions

B. Essama-Nssah and Peter J. Lambert

Equalization of opportunity: Definitions and implementable conditions

Francesco Andreoli and Arnaud Lefranc

Wage comparisons in and out of the firm. Evidence from a matched employer-employee French database

Olivier Godechot and Claudia Senik

Social mobility at the top: Why are elites self-reproducing?

Elise Brezis and Joel Hellier

Skill premia and intergenerational education mobility: The French case

B. Ben-Halima, Nathalie Chusseau and Joel Hellier

History dependent growth incidence: A characterisation and an application to the economic crisis in Italy

Flaviana Palmisano and Dirk Van de gaer

The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An overview

Nora Lustig, Florencia Amábile, Marisa Bucheli, George Gray Molina, Sean Higgins, Miguel Jaramillo, Wilson Jiménez Pozo, Veronica Paz Arauco, Claudiney Pereira, Carola Pessino, Maximo Rossi, John Scott and Ernesto Yáñez Aguilar

Comparing the incidence of taxes and social spending in Brazil and the United States

Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig, Whitney Ruble and Timothy Smeeding

Opportunity-sensitive poverty measurement

Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo and Vito Peragine

Relative bipolarization quasi-ordering based on Between-Group Gini (BGG) curves

Gaston Yalonetzky

Measuring unfair inequality: Reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Paul Hufe, Ravi Kanbur and Andreas Peichl

Income Mobility

Markus Jantti and Stephen Jenkins

Local Segregation and Well-being

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

Individual Diversity and the Gini Decomposition

Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

Cost of Inequality, the Uniform Rule and Cooperative Games

Arsen Palestini and Giuseppe Pignataro

The Evolution of Occupational Segregation in the U.S., 1940-2010: The Gains and Losses of Gender-Race/Ethnicity Groups

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

Chartbook of economic inequality

Anthony Atkinson and Salvatore Morelli

On the measurement of polarization for ordinal data

Martyna Kobus

Multidimensional polarization for ordinal data

Martyna Kobus

Inequality and development: the role of opportunities and free-will

Gustavo Marrero and Juan Rodríguez

Multidimensional Lorenz dominance: A definition and an example

Asis Banerjee

Capital income shares and income inequality in the European Union

Eva Schlenker and Kai Schmid

Offshoring, employment, labour market reform and inequality: Modelling the German experience

Thomas Beissinger, Nathalie Chusseau and Joel Hellier

Inequality and growth in the context of the Mexican economy: Does inequality matter for growth?

Jorge Charles Coll

The Luxembourg Income Study

Martin Ravallion

Why has inequality in Germany not risen further after 2005?

Miriam Rehm, Kai Schmid and Dieter Wang

Preferences for redistribution after the economic crisis

Javier Olivera

Inequality of opportunity and economic growth: A cross-country analysis

Francisco Ferreira, Christoph Lakner, Maria Ana Lugo and Berk Özler

The risk of financial crises: Is it in real or financial factors?

Karolin Kirschenmann, Tuomas Malinen and Henri Nyberg

Decentralization in Colombia: Searching for social equity in a bumpy economic geography

Juan Ramírez, Yadira Díaz and Juan Bedoya

How useful is inequality of opportunity as a policy construct?

Ravi Kanbur and Adam Wagstaff

Globalization and social segmentation

Nathalie Chusseau and Joel Hellier

New contest success functions

Satya Chakravarty and Bhargav Maharaj

Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India

Sripad Motiram and Karthikeya Naraparaju

Social evaluation of deprivation count distributions

Rolf Aaberge and Andrea Brandolini

Fiscal policy, inequality and the ethnic divide in Guatemala

Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig and Hilcías Morán

Intrahousehold distribution in migrant-sending families

Lucia Mangiavacchi, Federico Perali and Luca Piccoli

The contribution of income mobility to economic insecurity in the US and Spain during the Great Recession

Olga Cantó and David O. Ruiz

An alternative measure of economic inequality in the light of optics

Amlan Majumder

From the glass door to the glass ceiling: An analysis of the gender wage gap by age groups

Elena Dalla Chiara, Eleonora Matteazzi and Ilaria Petrarca

Income taxation and equity: New dominance criteria and an application to Romania

Paolo Brunori, Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine