Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of … standard against a richer group, thereby capturing a notion of change in relative income, which embodies the influence of … others' wellbeing on the judgment of the group's own situation. The indices, and related relative income change (RIC) curves …

There is increasing scholarly evidence that financialization has contributed to rising income inequality, especially by … concentrating income among the affluent and rich. There is less empirical research examining who is losing out to the affluent. This … employment; credit expansion; and financial crises) affect upper-tail (measured as the ratio between the 90th and 50th income …

income, and the connections between them has thus far been underexploited. This paper presents various data on four Central … between earned and disposable income in CEE countries using LIS data for history and EU-SILC data for the present time. Here … family income? Two perspectives are used: employed persons (examining the association between their earnings and the income …

Aggregate data shows an inverse relationship between female employment and income inequality. This paper investigates … force on the distribution of income in spite of large employment gaps between high and low educated women. There are marked … of the family budget and single women, employed or not, are overrepresented in the bottom of the income distribution. The …

Divergence between the evolution of GDP per capita and the income of a ‘typical’ household as measured in household … Luxembourg Income Study. While GDP per capita has risen faster than median household income in most of these countries over the …

Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality …

posttaxposttransfer income distribution? And what do the answers to these questions tell us about the best route to low posttax …

We present a markovian homogeneous model that mimics the evolution of household income. With three parameters only, the … model generates a set of theoretical curves that closely fit actual income distributions, as observed in 19 advanced …