In Part A of the present study, subtitled 'The Consumption Function as Solution of a Boundary Value Problem' Discussion … sufficient conditions for optimality of a plan generated by a logarithmic consumption function, i.e. a relation expressing log-consumption …

Housing and pension wealth are shown to be important determinants of personal sector consumption and retirement … behaviour in the UK. Housing and state pension wealth have a positive effect on consumption, while private pension wealth … shown to be important. The consumption equation forecasts the late 1980s boom and the early 1990s slump in the UK better …

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …

This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …