caa a22 4500 46788935X CHVBK 20180406152744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10888-006-9020-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10888-006-9020-1 The effect on inequality of changing one or two incomes [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Lambert, Giuseppe Lanza] We examine the effect on inequality of increasing one income, and show that for two wide classes of indices a benchmark income level or position exists, dividing upper from lower incomes, such that if a lower income is raised, inequality falls, and if an upper income is raised, inequality rises. We provide a condition on the inequality orderings implicit in two inequality indices under which the one has a lower benchmark than the other for all unequal income distributions. We go on to examine the effect on the same indices of simultaneously increasing one income and decreasing another higher up the distribution, deriving results which quantify the extent of the ‘bucket leak' which can be tolerated without negating the beneficial inequality effect of the transfer. Our results have implications for the inequality and poverty impacts of different income growth patterns, and of redistributive programmes, leaky or not, which are briefly discussed. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 inequality index nationallicence inequality ordering nationallicence leaky bucket nationallicence Lambert Peter Economics Department, 1285 University of Oregon, 97404, Eugene, OR, USA aut Lanza Giuseppe Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Bari, Via Camillo Rosalba 53, 70124, Bari, Italy aut The Journal of Economic Inequality Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/3(2006-12-01), 253-277 1569-1721 4:3<253 2006 4 10888 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-006-9020-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-006-9020-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lambert Peter Economics Department, 1285 University of Oregon, 97404, Eugene, OR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lanza Giuseppe Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Bari, Via Camillo Rosalba 53, 70124, Bari, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic Inequality Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/3(2006-12-01), 253-277 1569-1721 4:3<253 2006 4 10888 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer