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What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get
poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …

A comprehensive account of economic size distributions around the world and throughout
the years In the course of the past 100 years, economists and applied statisticians have …

We derive the asymptotic sampling distribution of various estimators frequently used to order
distributions in terms of poverty, welfare, and inequality. This includes estimators of most of …

Initiated by Esteban and Ray (1991, 1994), Foster and Wolfson (1992) and Wolfson (1994),
there has been a recent upsurge of interest in the measurement of polarization 1 and in the …

The publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada's Inter national
Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields …

This paper reviews the basic principles of inequality measurement, underlining the
advantages and shortcomings of alternative measures from a theoretical standpoint and in …

This paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality and inequality of
opportunities for income acquisition in nine developed countries during the 1990s. Equality …

We offer a model of equality of opportunity that encompasses different conceptions
expressed in the public and philosophical debates. In addition to circumstances whose …

Tests for stochastic dominance, based upon extensions of the Goodness of Fit Test to the
nonparametric comparison of income distributions, are proposed, implemented, and …