Although the determinants of income are complex, the results are surprisingly uniform. To a first approximation, top … incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent … incomes, including how income gets redistributed as the rich get richer. …

This article analyses changes in the distributions of working-age individuals' earnings and total income in New Zealand … over the period 1998-2004. We find that there have been broad gains in income across the distribution, suggesting the … median income increased 1213 per cent. Inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, was more stable: earnings inequality …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the … last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study … combines the latest data to examine the relationship between top income share and different dimensions of subjective well …

While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to … others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative importance of own and reference-group income … regarding happiness analysis, and in particular with respect to the measurement of reference-group income. We here use data from …

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the … last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study … combines the latest data to examine the relationship between top income share and different dimensions of subjective well …

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the … last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study … combines the latest data to examine the relationship between top income share and different dimensions of subjective well …

reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …

on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich … individual-level data from a six-country survey, we find that while the outbreak has no impacts on household income losses, it … results in a 65-percent reduction in the expected own labor income for the second-poorest income quintile. The impacts of the …