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 on life satisfaction. The results of this study indicate that (1) transfer share is positively associated with life … satisfaction and (2) lowincome targeting shortens the well-being inequality stemming from income but at the cost of life …The present study uses benefit recipiency data and three dimensions of welfare transfers, namely, transfer share, low-income …

Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For … example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in …

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 …

research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main … income distribution has widened and whether trade is responsible indeed. However, political trends may be more grounded in …) and income statistics from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), this paper shows in an international cross-section analysis …

from the US, the paper brings fresh evidence to longstanding debates over how inequality influences income redistribution … shift in social policy from the poor to those higher up the income ladder. This I do by examining both income and the … sources of that income using household-level data spanning four decades. The evidence in this paper does not indicate that a …

Over the last three decades, the wealth-to-income ratio (WIR) in many Western countries, particularly in Europe and … period where wealth became a secondary resource for a middle-class lifestyle afforded by education and labor income for both …

changed since 1991. Among Western Europe’s six largest economies, the shares of adults living in middle-income households …This paper examines the state of the middle classes in the U.S. and 11 countries in Western Europe and how it has …, the Netherlands and the UK also experienced notable growth in disposable household income, but incomes were either …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … measures. It finds that the main source of negative disposable incomes is negative self-employment income, and that high tax …