Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …

income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy …. Drawing on empirical analysis of the links between structural policies and the distribution of labour income, the paper looks … at potential policy trade-offs and complementarities with respect to the two policy objectives of lowering income …

In this paper we explore the possibility of the application of GAMLSS regression techniques for the analysis of income … distributions in Germany following the reunification. We find that conditional income distributions can generally be modelled using …

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person’s well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

. Within countries, it assesses the possibilities for individuals to protect their wealth, labour and capital income against … institutions can be identified that facilitate risk sharing between high and low income earners, namely “social protection” and …