It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the …

Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels …) exhibit a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) in response to transitory income shocks, all else being equal. This … designed to account for the empirically observed negative correlation between income levels and income risk. This interaction …

sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Yet, this positive trend in productivity should … translate into higher wages. Thus, we pose the following questions applied to a middle-income trapped country: is there a link …

This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the … "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income … inequality is, the lower the individual's perception of her social standing, even if objective income inequality and preferences …