are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry … into higher levels of democracy; but if we control for the previously achieved level of democracy, the income effect …

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 …

The relationship between speed and income is established in a micro- economic model focusing on the trade-off between … driver will choose to exceed the speed limit. The relationship between speed and income is found again in the empirical … speed on income, distance travelled and a number of controls. The results are clearly significant and indicate an average …

„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 …

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 …

tax- and contribution rules built into tax-benefit models to convert net income information into gross amounts. Using … to produce different net-to-gross ratios for different income components. We undertake a case study to illustrate the … income sources of the same individual. …

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … this particular period, that is, if there was a real convergence in income equality. In addition, we have also studied … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices …

The median voter hypothesis has been central to an extensive literature on consequences of income distribution. For … that is sought by the median voter when income distribution is less equal. There have however been no proper tests of the … median-voter hypothesis concerning redistribution, because of previous absence of data on factor income distribution (that is …

saves out of wages and profits by applying to these income sources propensities to save which are not necessarily equal …. Capitalists’ saving originates only from capital income. The model is two-dimensional involving distributive processes that occur …