estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a …

an inequality measure and this is combined with the Cost of Living Index to produce an overall welfare measure. This …This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

calculate inequality and polarization indices and then we specifically analyze whether the Spanish tax-benefit system helped to …

income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income elasticity for the low income group? This paper … higher the income elasticity. The main reason for the reduction in calorie consumption for the low income group in the early … 1990s was a sharp increase in food price. In addition, in the mid to late 1990s large scale social welfare reform increased …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the …