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 …

inequality. But do they really contribute to the increase in inequality? And, if so, what are the reasons? Is it because they are … financial centers contribute more than other urban areas to the increase in inequality, both at the national and local levels …

Over the last three decades, the wealth-to-income ratio (WIR) in many Western countries, particularly in Europe and … repatrimonialisation) – or the comeback of (inherited) wealth primacy since the mid ‘90s. For the sociology of social stratification …, “occupational classes” based on jobs worked must now be understood within a context of wealth-based domination. In this paper, we …

In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical … judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society’s aversion to inequality. However … inequality aversion utility function using datasets available from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. We utilise the method of …

the impact on marital sorting of both inequality between educational strata and increasing gender parity in the labor and …

Inequality is anisotropic: its intensity is variable along the income scale. Therefore, to focus on local inequalities … coefficients able to summarize the shape of inequalities: a main coefficient, alpha, measures inequality at the median, and two …

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

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 …