Traditional inequality measures fail to capture the geographical distribution of income. The failure to consider such distribution implies that, holding income constant, different spatial patterns ...

The wealth gap is noticeable everywhere, and in this article, Insider Monkey brings you the list of 25 most unequal countries with the worst income equality in the world. If you look at the ...

Researchers propose a novel twist on the widely used Gini coefficient -- a workhorse statistical measure for gauging the gap between haves and have-nots. A new way of measuring wealth inequality ...

Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...

Peter Whiteford has received funding from the Australian Research Council and from the European Commission for work on inequality. He is affiliated with the Centre for Policy Development. Is ...

A new way of measuring wealth inequality better accounts for the way we experience it. In a paper published in Economics Letters, economists Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute and Wendy Carlin of ...