Methods of Estimation of Wealth Inequality

This category contains research that significantly adds to the methodological discussion within the field of wealth inequality.

A simple method for measuring inequality - Nature

Our inequality index is very simple to calculate. It comprises three indicators, namely, the Gini index, the income share held by the top 10%, ...

Measuring income inequality - IZA World of Labor

Economists use various metrics for measuring income inequality. Here, the most commonly used measures—the Lorenz curve, the Gini coefficient, decile ratios, the ...

Income Inequality Metrics - U.S. Census Bureau

Two of the most commonly used income distribution measures are the shares of aggregate household income received by each quintile ...

Income inequality measures - PMC - PubMed Central

Income inequality measures such as the generalised entropy index and the Atkinson index offer the ability to examine the effects of inequalities in different ...

The many ways to measure economic inequality

Most researchers agree that wealth is more unevenly distributed than income, while consumption is less concentrated at the upper end than either wealth or ...

Measuring inequality: what is the Gini coefficient? - Our World in Data

The Gini coefficient, or Gini index, is the most commonly used measure of inequality. It was developed by Italian statistician Corrado Gini (1884–1965) and is ...

Accounting for Wealth-Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates ...

It shows that our imputation methods capture the level of wealth concentration in the wealth surveys extremely well. Trends in wealth concentration are very ...

Measuring Trends in Income Inequality | St. Louis Fed

To measure inequality, economists often sort the population by income percentiles and measure the difference across these percentiles. For example, the top 10 ...

Measuring income inequality: A primer on the debate

PSZ find the top 1% share of pre-tax income rose by 6 percentage points (from 13% to 19%) and AS estimate the increase to be 4 percentage points ...

Understanding estimates of economic inequality

Such horizontal discrimination interacts with economic inequalities. This usually means measurable differences in income and wealth, which are referred to as ...

Income Inequality Definition: Examples and How It's Measured

Income inequality is often accompanied by wealth inequality, which is the uneven distribution of wealth. Populations can be divided up in different ways to show ...

Income inequality metrics - Wikipedia

Anonymity or symmetry. This assumption states that an inequality metric does not depend on the "labeling" of individuals in an economy and all that matters is ...

Exploring Wealth Inequality | Cato Institute

One method of estimating wealth shares uses capital income reported on tax returns (such as interest and dividends) to estimate stocks of assets ...

Income inequality and poverty : methods of estimation and policy ...

In a closed economy, income is created in production with the aid of factors such as land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.

Structuring the Analysis of Wealth Inequality Using the Functions of ...

Our approach allows us to distinguish between wealth as a means of production, as a substitute for public wealth (precautionary wealth), and as ...

Inequality Measurement - the United Nations

intricate methods. All of these can be used to provide a ... (2006), 'Describing Income Inequality: Theil. Index and Entropy Class ...

Income Inequality | County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

Income Inequality · Data Source · Key Measure Methods · Can This Measure Be Used to Track Progress · Finding More Data · References · Find strategies in What Works ...

A simple method for estimating the Lorenz curve - Nature

The data on the Gini index and the income shares of four countries that have a different level of income inequality, economic, sociological, and ...

Introduction to Inequality - International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Gini coefficient is a typical measure of income inequality. The coefficient varies between 0 and 1, with 0 representing perfect equality and 1 perfect ...