income hypothesis and theories of precautionary saving, a one standard deviation increase in the uncertainty of remittance … uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households … income raises the likelihood of household spending on asset accumulation by about 2 percentage points while raising the share …

Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households … over-evaluation or under-evaluation of income in our data, although there is a slight over-evaluation on the part of …

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960 …

-19 crisis on work (including wage employment, self-employment, and farm work) and income, as well as heterogeneity by … main predictor of joblessness. We find significant rural/urban, age, and education gradients in household level income loss …. Households with income from non-farm enterprises were most likely to report income loss, in the short run as well as the longer …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … registration identity) and education status, household assets, the influence of past and future income and province dummies, we …

distribution we move, their presence has steadily increased in all top groups over the past four decades. Top income women are … opposite is true for men. Realized capital gains are more important for top income women but turn out to be of a more … transitory nature than for men. Mobility is generally higher for top income women compared to top income men but the trend since …

Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring … own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top executives replacing capital owners in the group of top-income earners … framework and uses it for exploring the changing composition of top incomes.It illustrates that changes in top income shares can …

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 …