„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average … income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s … income growth of the 1990s was distributed evenly between labour (wages and salaries) and capital (profits). The labour and …

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to …

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to …

live on only investment income, while if an impatient individual lives long enough, he will deplete all his wealth and live … the return on capital, and general increases in wealth, income, and utility. Possibilities for engineering such an … endogenous. The distribution of income is then endogenously determined by both technological parameters of production, and the …

influenced indirectly, through parental investments in education and earnings capacity, whereas the wealth holdings of families …

median and average wealth fell among families whose major income recipient is aged 25–34 and increased among those whose … reduce wealth inequality; 6) changes in permanent income do not explain a substantial portion of the growing gap between low-wealth … evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) Wealth inequality has …

increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility … function. One possible answer is that human development involves more than current income (e.g., as argued by the UN). We find … absolute income, the generosity of the welfare state and (weakly) with life expectancy; it is negatively correlated with the …

Household micro-datasets often do not contain information on gross incomes. We present an algorithm which exploits the … tax- and contribution rules built into tax-benefit models to convert net income information into gross amounts. Using … is the ability to distinguish between different individuals in the same household. Even if individuals’ incomes are taxed …

Empirical studies of intertemporal dynamics of individual income, distribution of personal income, and growth and … distribution of national income are all based on statistics that rely on some concept of income. The dominant one today appears to … be the so-called Haig-Simons-Hicks (HSH) concept of income. I examine the foundations of this concept in Hicks's Value …