, the elasticity of redistribution to poor classes to their income has decreased over the last decade, suggesting a … reduction of the policies in support of low income individuals. …

Our objective in this paper is to assess how middle-income groups are faring with the global turn to the market. We … suggest some simple measures of the middle-the size and income shares of households around the median (75/125%)-and their … income status relative to wealthier counterparts. Our results point to genuine distributional stress for middle-income …

intensity" (RTI) and "offshorability" (OFFS) for use with the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database. To produce these data, we … 38 LIS countries and 160 LIS country-years. To assess the validity of these recodes, we compare average labor-income … OFFS scores and advance the literature on income polarization, we analyze their association with work hours and labor …

Based on the standard axiom of individual utility maximization, rational choice has postulated that higher income … redistribution should increase in line with inequality. An empirical test based on 110 observations from the Luxembourg Income Study …

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more …-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … Database. The results garnered for our preferred sample of countries suggest that income polarization has a negative impact on …

We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household … aggregate disposable income earned by household types of different size. …

The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality … corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US … make several European countries look preferable. The paper also sheds light on the risk corrected average income on a …

Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences … are a function of relative income differentials. It makes three central claims: (a) skew in the earnings distribution, the … endogenous to the welfare state; (b) relative earnings differentials are not a valid proxy measure for the structure of income …