Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that … people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of inequality has a positive effect on well …-being. Since the authors simultaneously estimate the effects of income inequality and its reduction, their results indicate that …

-fixed and time-fixed effects removes the statistical significance of income as a causal factor of democracy. We argue that their … reveals the strong effect of income on democracy …

between windfall profits, growth and households’ welfare is less straightforward than what the simple model of the "resource … productivity enhancing investments and an oil fund is crucial to achieving both shared growth and macroeconomic stability …

consumers, and what the growth potential of these goods is. While, all else equal, the North tends to lose more (or gain less …

The Finance-Growth Nexus is a classical source of debate among economists. This contribution offers regional evidence … countries. The results for this application support the view that finance leads growth, reject its possible endogeneity and …

inflation and output growth is non-linear and that there exists a threshold level below which inflation has no effects on growth. …