Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to decompose inequality in Sri Lanka by population subgroups and income sources … overall inequality. Originality/value – This is the first study that analyzes the latest Sri Lankan Household Income and … Expenditure Survey to decompose inequality by population subgroups and income sources.  …

Abstract This paper examines inequality and mobility using measures of income and consumption. Consumption is claimed … to be a better measure of permanent income and thus well-being, but most studies of inequality and mobility using U … income inequality but no concurrent increase in consumption inequality in the 1990s. Conversely, income mobility and …

direct and indirect effects of ethnic and religious heterogeneity on income inequality using US data.  … heterogeneity on the one hand and measures of inequality and redistribution on the other, using state‐level US data. Design …/methodology/approach – The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse income inequality for a sample of 14 European countries and their … policies to reduce income inequality at a regional level. This may result in further increases in regional inequality among …/methodology/approach – Initially, inequality is decomposed using the Theil coefficient into between and within country inequality to assess the extent …

This paper uses a lifetime income simulation model to examine the effects on inequality and progressivity of extending … the time period over which income is measured. The income tax schedule typically displays increasing marginal rates, and … there is a substantial amount of relative income mobility, along with a systematic variation in average incomes over the …

questions associated with tax/transfer policies and poverty and inequality measurement. The paper concludes that in contrast to … conventional methods of measuring poverty and inequality, there is a case for the use of different equivalence scales for adults …

Some evidence for the nexus of child care services, labour force participation, fertility, and family income inequality …, but it also results in a more equal family income distribution. Its policy implication is that the provision of child care …

income inequality. Economic growth in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was seen as a panacea for reducing poverty. While the key to … of poverty and income inequality. The criticism of the free market approach is its failure to take account of … institutional, social and political factors which in many cases are the real causes of poverty and income inequality. The debate on …

than weak ties. Originality/value This study expands previous research by highlighting the significance of multilevel …