This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …

economic progress. Per capita consumption rose 37 percent from 1973 to 1993, but median family income was unchanged. This paper … income because saving fell, consumption financed from noncash income sources rose, family size shrank, and income inequality … between husband and wife earnings in the trend toward greater family income inequality. …

to be refocused on those at the very bottom of the income distribution and away from those at the very top. …Australia has experienced a sustained period of solid real income growth, along with a modest increase in income … were supported by growth in returns on capital investment. This paper contends that the income inequality debate may need …

is that the nominal distribution of income could give a misleading picture of tensions in society, both within and across …We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income … distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from …

preferences may increase the effectiveness of policies to redistribute income, instead of weakening them. Consequently, from an …

redistribution. We show that the nominal distribution of income could give quite a misleading picture of real inequality and tensions … inequality of incomes and inequality of welfare outcomes, and (b) individuals’ material incentives for supporting income … in society, both within and between communities. We also analyze the impact of alternative patterns of income growth on …

spending behavior without knowledge of the underlying microeconomic distribution of circumstances and choices across households … heterogeneity (in expenditures, income, assets, debt, and beliefs) in the population and (b) sum up to statistics that have a …

. ------------------------------------------This work study the distribution of income inequality, just as the poverty, of the resident families in the rural areas in … found, verify which there is high inequality in the distribution of income among the families rural mato-grossenses. It is … contribution of the one definitive/determinate source of income in the total income inequality. In the midst of the main results …