This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the quantiles, if the level of durable goods consumption … income among the public sector workers. The 2004-05 survey of income and consumption by workers in both private and public …

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 …

comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts for the fact …As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal … that individuals regularly undertake inter-period income transfers. Moreover, the approach allows for individual …

the insurance coverage as driven by a trinomial choice process. We disentangle the effect of income and wealth by going … income (doubly insured) individuals to low income (not doubly insured) ones operated by the Italian National Health Service …