Visible inequality breeds more inequality

On a more accurate multiple Hilbert-type inequality

By using Euler-Maclaurin's summation formula and the way of real analysis, a more accurate multipleHilbert-type inequality and the equivalent form are given. We also prove that the same constantfactor in the equivalent inequalities is the best possible.

More Inequality, Less Social Mobility

We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the late-1990s.

More about Weakly Decomposable Inequality Measures

This note proposes a generalization of the weak decomposition axiom recently introduced by Ebert (2010) [U. Ebert (2010), The decomposition of inequality reconsidered: Weakly decomposable measures, Mathematical Social Sciences 60(2): 94-103]. The generalization of this axiom relies on the introduction of weaker weighting functions based both on the size of the population and the mean income. Re...

Does More International Trade Openness Worsen Inequality

Does freer trade increase income inequality within countries, perhaps sufficiently to offset any benefits to the poor from higher overall per capita income? Figure 4 suggests that there is no simple association between changes in trade openness and changes in inequality. Certainly there are many well known cases of countries where inequality has risen as they became more integrated into the wor...

More inequality with demise of health accord.