This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban …-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … essential determinants of households' income level. These two factors exert heterogeneous effects at different percentiles of …

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the … last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study … combines the latest data to examine the relationship between top income share and different dimensions of subjective well …

illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner … regulation by the European Commission, (EC) which is currently being used to harmonize income measurement for the European … Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in Europe. While both of these components represent some kind of return on …

The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in … Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the variance in long-run income that is attributable to family background …

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less … income satisfied is the individual. Moreover, being unemployed is one of the main determinants of deprivation, although …

This paper studies the income of Swedish households belonging to the baby boom generation, i.e., those born in the 1940 …-50. An international comparison as well as an historical presentation of income patterns is given. However, the main purpose … is to generate the future income of the baby boom generation as they get older. A major result is that the income …

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation … II, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern stands in sharp contrast to developments in …