The paper studies the income mosaic of Greece at the local community level, from the time the country joined the EMU to the advent of the international crisis. It econometrically isolates the average income, income-filer population size, and annual effects, and brings to light sub-regional and...

The paper studies the income mosaic of Greece at the local community level, from the time the country joined the EMU to the advent of the international crisis. It econometrically isolates the average income, income-filer population size, and annual effects, and brings to light sub-regional and...

The article analyzes the population shares of employed, unemployed and other men and women by utilizing the 2001 Greek Census data collected at the municipal level. It departs from other studies on the subject by (a) considering not one but all economic activities simultaneously, (b) trying to...

The paper attempts to empirically explain the vote shares received by political parties across municipalities in Greece during the national elections of 2000, in terms of demographic, educational, occupational and other factors under two territorial specifications: one based on the conventional...

The purpose of this article is to examine trends in ‘middle class welfare’ in Australia, defined as the extent of cash transfers going to working age families with incomes above the second decile in the distribution of family incomes, net of the income taxes that these families pay. We use...

The Poverty Wars started with a coordinated series of skirmishes by the Centre for Independent Studies. One of their main criticism of income-based measures of poverty is that measurement error(i.e. under-reporting) is pronounced for low income earners, especially those who indicate they have an...

This paper applies econometric estimation methods to improve the level of precision and detail in the measurement of welfare in Mexico, and specifically to estimate household incomes. As is the case in other countries, Mexico has had, on the one hand, household surveys that provide high...

A microeconomic model is developed, which accurately predicts the shape of personal income distribution (PID) in the United States and the evolution of the shape over time. The underlying concept is borrowed from geo-mechanics and thus can be considered as mechanics of income distribution. The...

This paper deals with the distribution effects from 2000 to 2007 of the tax/benefit systems on net disposable incomes of dependents. The impact is evaluated by adopting the net average tax rates (i.e. income tax plus employees’ social security contributions less cash benefits) as a percentage...

In this paper we analyze the upper edge of income and wealth distribution in Germany with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). According to Sen´s (1976) recommendation for the poverty measurement, we first define different thresholds above which a person belongs to the rich part...