An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income …-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … older generations indicating that Europe has experienced a reduction in overall health inequality over time. Although there …

decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new … disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income experience of older (wo …

socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to …. We end this paper with a "matrix" that provides guidelines on the usefulness of several rank-dependent inequality indices …

Inequality', Volume 21: Health and Inequality, Emerald Group Publishing, 2013.<P> We explore what health-capital theory has to … offer in terms of informing and directing research into health inequality. We argue that economic theory can help in …

panel data from the European Community Household Panel surveys. We use pooled interval regressions and inequality … income inequality and modest increases in income-related health inequality in the majority of countries ….Keywords:income inequality, health inequality, income elasticity of health, Europe.Classification-JEL: D30, D31, I10, I12. …

We consider a new copula method for mixed marginals of discrete and continuous random variables. Unlike the Bayesian … methods in the literature, we use maximum likelihood estimation based on closed-form copula functions. We show with a … using data from the 2013 Household Finance Survey, we show how the copula dependence between income (continuous) and …

copulabased non linear quantile regression known as copula quantile regression (CQR).The discussion of the properties of the …

robust to large innovations. The model also admits a representation as a time-varying heavy-tailed copula which is …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …