. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution … rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The interrelationship between wealth (GDPpc), equality of income and … mean satisfaction for fifteen EU states was assessed over a four year period (1995-1998). Equality of income was …

their consumption from specific economic shocks and fluctuations in their real income. Building on the recent literature of … household consumption covaries with the growth rate of household income. All the cases studies show that food consumption is … mechanism for partially insuring ex-post the consumption of food from the effects of income changes. Food consumption is also …

tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the … independent child when her income is low relative to the parents’. We find that children of more altruistic parents are more … ambiguity in the results. If parents are selfish or the joint income distributionof parents and child places no mass on the …

In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … that, unlike the standard measures of unemployment or poverty, account for the amount of vulnerability that exists in … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …

The ability of households to diversify their income sources is strongly related to their capacity to cope in times of … which to draw when under such pressures. Households with a newborn child face two additional constraints: the income …. Very little is known about whether income diversification strategies are constrained for such households, but such …

and poverty on arson, in ways expected from theory. All findings support an economic model of crime. …

This paper attempts to provide alternative estimates of income distribution in South Africa, utilizing data that allow … us to evaluate income, distribution across time, reducing dependence on the vagaries associated with individual surveys … we then combine to arrive at estimates of overall poverty from 1970 to 2000. However, data for the last few years of this …