Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … panel data from the European Community Household Panel surveys. We use pooled interval regressions and inequality …

inheritance. Wealth–income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth inequalities were high in the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries … current trends toward rising wealth–income ratios and wealth inequality might continue during the twenty-first century, both …This chapter offers an overview of the empirical and theoretical research on the long-run evolution of wealth and …

This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature …

Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the … world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its … emergence of a global "middle class". We show how regional distributions of income and consumption have evolved very differently …

and significant income or asset equalizing effect in Africa, particularly at higher level of education. Growth in …

equal distribution of assets and income. At the same time, empirical work consistently shows that economic growth is no more … capita income and inequality are relatively high; and 3) a static redistribution from the rich to the poor is superior to a …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … panel LS regressions with individual fixed effects, none of the income variables was significant for the highly educated. … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …