We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a substantial impact of ill-health on income, mainly operating through employment, although the magnitude of ill …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … on average the levels of national income inequality in the developing world increased in the 1980s and 1990s and declined … in the 2000s. There has been a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional …

We provide an overview of microsimulation approaches for assessing the effects of policy on income distribution. We … of income distribution in general and policy evaluation in particular. We consider the main challenges and limitations of …

the multiple causes of income inequality in the OECD area with regard to both levels and trends. The survey covers …

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the … attitudes toward the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as … the individual's disinterested evaluation of income inequality; on the contrary, the second view reflects self …