systems from various perspectives. This paper uses available household wealth and income data to calculate the resource rich … state of Western Australia's ISF from different wealth level perspectives. How wealth inequity may affect the stability of … changes in wealth distribution. The ISF results show that from the perspective of society's richest 20%, poorest 20%, mean …

value of one’s own home (home equity) is the largest financial reserve in a household’s wealth portfolio, it is important to …

racial inequality. Third, I describe the levels of inequality in income and wealth. Fourth, I describe the intergenerational …This chapter argues income and wealth are two paramount gradational measures of social stratification. The chapter … makes this case while reviewing recent social science on income and wealth. First, I begin by explaining how income and …

-coefficients were used for measuring earnings inequality. Relative changes in earnings inequality for sickness benefits were explained …

This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is … Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …

variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …

time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …

equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have …

episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …