To use the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) for the analysis of income
and other positively skewed distributions, knowledge of estimation methods and the ability to …

This paper presents a concise and up-to-date tour to the realm of inequality indices.
Originally devised for socioeconomic applications, inequality indices gauge the divergence …

Grouped data in the form of income shares have conventionally been used to estimate
income inequality due to the lack of individual records. We present a systematic evaluation …

" The book deals with the empirical characterization and dynamics of income distribution
and its related quantities from the epistemological and practical perspectives of …

Despite the growing interest in global inequality, assessing inequality trends is a major
challenge because individual data on income or consumption is not often available …

Restarting a deterministic process always impedes its completion. However, it is known that
restarting a random process can lead to an opposite outcome—expediting completion …

Living in the era of “big-data” information, we are ubiquitously inundated by
overabundances of sizes—non-negative numerical values representing count, score, length …

In this paper we introduce a new set of estimates on educational attainment and inequality
measures of education for 142 countries over the period 1970–2010. Most of the previous …

A recent paper published in this journal (Bourguignon et al., 2016) introduces and studies a
new Pareto-type distribution, deriving some of its probabilistic and inferential properties. In …

Income distribution remains a crucial topic in economic analysis, among other reasons, due
to the increase in inequality in recent years, as one of the effects of the Great Recession. In …