This study shows the relationship between income distribution and other relevant economic variables and their impact on … income distribution. Panel data analysis is used to study 200 world economies and identify main income determinants. Using … such a large panel to study income distribution and inequality of household income make empirical results of this study …

different take on using the Theil index. We consider Theil's T from the perspective of variations in income or earnings across …

Income inequality and income distribution have always represented a foremost topic with important economic, political … and social implications. The large income disparities both at a national and global level present nowadays an even greater … materialize. In recent decades, the large income gaps still remained: the poorest fifth of the world population possessed in 2009 …

This paper analyzes sources of income inequality in Korea with respect to income source and region. When the Gini index … of overall income inequality was decomposed by geographical boundaries, the relative contribution of between …-region inequality to the total was 67.96 percent in 1995, showing a Gini index of 0.315. Half of this income inequality (a Gini index of …

between income and the probability of death in France. The results show that the risk of mortality is strongly correlated with … the level of income, independent from the occupational status. This relationship holds across the whole range of income … income-health relationship. …

aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The Western Development Plan has aimed at narrowing the income gap between … emphasis on education would help reduce the income gap, since human capital is a key determinant of income. Government policies … overall inequality has ceased to increase in recent years, and may even have inched down. Alternative measures of income …