this mobility on income distribution. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops an overlapping generation model with … increase, workers are mobilized up to better jobs, their income grows and income distribution becomes more equalized. Research … ability to analyze the changes in the income of various categories of workers along the growth path of the economy. …

significant negative relationships with per capita income, the percentage of elderly female drivers, seat belt use, and …

direct and indirect effects of ethnic and religious heterogeneity on income inequality using US data. …

regional welfare weight measure is the elasticity of marginal utility of income (e), and it is estimated using a tax … Turkey is 1.25, and this value, in combination with per capita income levels, produces measured regional welfare weights for …

/methodology/approach – The paper uses information on annual personal income for the period 1926-1999 to present empirical evidence about the …

average per capita income of a given region, or country, is the first moment in the distribution of income, but what about the … evolution of the first two moments of the distribution of income, and so does the adjustment for inequality make important … differences in the evolution of average per capita income? The answer to the first two questions is yes, but to the third it is …

matrices are discussed and the existence of twin peaks in the distribution of income is analyzed. Finally, the adequacy of both … Markovian and (time) homogeneity hypotheses in connection with the stochastic process that underlies income distribution is …. Second, the twin peaks results need a Markov (time) homogeneous chain as a model for the underlying income process, and then …

measures of cross-country inequality in human development index (HDI) and real income per capita over the 30-year period 1975 … pattern over the period; fifth, there is very high correlation between HDI and per capita income; sixth, despite the high … different inequalities in HDI and income despite very high correlation between the two variables; and indicating cross …

A single dimensional measure of economic welfare in terms of per capita income has neglected the contribution of the … forests, and focuses on the economic contribution of forest resources to household income, income distribution, and spread of … income over the year. …