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The Journal of Economic Inequality OnlineFirst articles

30-10-2021 Open Access

Absolute Poverty and Sound Public Finance in the Eurozone

The respect of fiscal parameters is supposed to be – according to the official position of the European institutions – the best recipe for granting stability and growth. This optimistic view appears to be in contrast with the recent increase in …

30-07-2021 Open Access

The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter?

Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic because they use methods that are inappropriate for categorical data. In this paper we focus on “pure” or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate …

30-07-2021 Open Access

Fair income tax with endogenous productivities and a fresh start

This paper considers a model in which agents have heterogeneous preferences over labour and consumption. Additionally, they also differ in their earning skills, which are a function of both an innate ability and an early investment decision. In …

27-07-2021

Meritocracy in Academic Labor Markets: A Comparison of Three Fields

We analyze the pay of faculty members of economics, mathematics, and marketing departments at large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the …

26-07-2021

Transformations that minimize the Gini index of a random variable and applications

Let X be a continuous or discrete random variable with values in [0,M] and consider all functions (here called transformations) q : [ 0 , M ] → [ 0 , ∞ ) $q:[0,M]\to [0,\infty )$ that are increasing and have given bounded rates B ≤ q ( v ) − q ( u …