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 …

Using cross-sections of microdata from Surveys of Consumer Finance and Surveys of Labour and Income Dynamics, we … hours of mothers have increased. While long hours of paid work were mostly characteristic of higher-income families during … the 1970's, by 2006 over half of families supplying more than 80 paid hours are from the bottom half of the 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 …

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 …

The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach …. Bivariate results from the Luxembourg Income Study indicate that liberal regimes (Australia, Canada, UK, USA) attain a …

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 …