This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long …-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well …. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures …

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of … income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and … quantile composition changes over time because of income mobility. To summarize patterns of income growth while also tracking …

aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal … income distribution statistics (Households Below Average Income, HBAI). I show that cross-sectional BHPS distributions track …

Average real UK household income has almost doubled over the past forty years. With four decades of micro-data on … household income of working-age households from different income sources, and break down further changes in employment income by … income of the richest working-age households, and among a group defined by having a low household income but a strong …

We provide an overview of microsimulation approaches to assess the effects of policy on the income distribution. We … analysis of the income distribution in general and policy evaluation in particular. We consider the main challenges and …

The flat income tax has become increasingly popular recently, yet its implementation is limited to Eastern Europe. We …

to both categorical and explicit income targeting .With few exceptions the impact of tax allowances and tax credits on … to be less important than the characteristics of the population they are targeting and/or other features of the income … towards households in the bottom part of the income distribution. …

We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within and between …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are … robust to changes in the definitions of income, income-sharing unit, and summary inequality measure. In addition, our …