well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …

This paper uses data from 14 Middle Income Countries in the Luxembourg Income Study database to examine the position of … children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … "taxing back" from higher income quintiles have the largest poverty reduction effect across all 14 countries, while weighting …

. Bivariate results from the Luxembourg Income Study indicate that liberal regimes (Australia, Canada, UK, USA) attain a …

Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of … standard against a richer group, thereby capturing a notion of change in relative income, which embodies the influence of … others' wellbeing on the judgment of the group's own situation. The indices, and related relative income change (RIC) curves …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all … population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the …

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only …