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Working Paper 2013-310 Abstract This paper develops a criterion of opportunity equalization, that is consistent with theoretical views of equality

Working Paper 2013-309 Abstract Poverty reduction has emerged as a fundamental objective of development and hence a metric for assessing

Working Paper 2013-308 Abstract The “Palma” is the ratio of national income shares of the top 10 percent of households

Working Paper 2013-307 Abstract In the paper, a combined approach is used to test for inequality differences of several well-being

Working Paper 2013-306 Abstract The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of

Working Paper 2013-305 Abstract In the context of Social Welfare and Choquet integration, we briefly review, on the one hand,

Working Paper 2013-304 Abstract Based on harmonized and detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require

Working Paper 2013-303 Abstract By all accounts, income inequality in Egypt is low and had been declining during the decade

Working Paper 2013-302 Abstract The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality,

Working Paper 2013-301 Abstract This document provides recent evidence about the persistency of wage gaps between formal and informal workers

Working Paper 2013-300 Abstract This paper identifies a family of absolute consistent inequality indices using a weakly decomposable postulate suggested