equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …

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 …