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 …

migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …

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 …

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a …

weighted average of an absolute poverty line (such as $1.25 per day or $1.45 per day) and a reference income (such as the mean … or the median income). The number of poor is computed under various values of the weight applied to the absolute poverty …

The impact of growth on the distribution of income or consumption is regularly debated at both the scientific and … contributions have logically assessed these distributional effects in an anonymous fashion. But this means ignoring both the income …