The deficiencies of the Deininger and Squire data set on household income inequality are well known for its sparse coverage, problematic measurements, and the combination of diverse data types into a single data set. Yet many studies have relied on this data due to the lack of available alternatives. In this paper we show how the UTIP-UNIDO measures of manufacturing pay inequality can be used, ...

A class of anonymous measures of mobility is defined that considers the relationship between the long-run and the short-run distributions of income or any other attribute. Several measures of long-run income are explored, and distributions are compared on the basis of several inequality measures. The data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics is used to demonstrate. The basic concept...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of state income inequality and individual household income with the mental and physical health of women with young children. DESIGN Cross sectional study. Individual level data (outcomes, income, and other sociodemographic covariates) from a 1991 follow up survey of a birth cohort established in 1988. State level income inequality calculated from the incom...

A number of recent papers have found evidence of interdependencies in utility functions, in that, ceteris paribus, individual well-being falls as others' income or consumption increases. This paper asks if, in addition, the distribution of income in the reference group matters. I consider full-time employees in eleven waves of British panel data, and take life satisfaction and the GHQ-12 as mea...

The paper presents ab abstract definition of linear inequality concepts leading to linearly invariant measures and characterizes the class of linear concepts completely. Two general methods of deriving ethical measures are proposed. They imply an Atkinson-Kolm-Sen index and a new dual index reflecting the inequality of living standard. Then all separable social welfare orderings which generate ...

— A country’s mix of products predicts its subsequent pattern of diversification and economic growth. But does this product mix also predict income inequality? Here we combine methods from econometrics, network science, and economic complexity to show that countries exporting complex products—as measured by the Economic Complexity Index—have lower levels of income inequality than countries expo...

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...