unequal income distributions have poorer health outcomes. We present a critical review of the existing international … literature on the relationship between income, income inequality and health, in terms of conceptual approaches, research methods … priorities based on the relative importance of income inequality versus other potential causal factors in determining population …

influences income inequality. Chapter 4 uses a case study to discuss how infrastructure policies can affect regional economic … Florian Dorn: (I) Globalization, government ideology, and top income shares: Evidence from OECD countries; (II) Political …

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less … income satisfied is the individual. Moreover, being unemployed is one of the main determinants of deprivation, although …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

proximity in the income distribution to the reference individual. …

high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …

Poverty prediction models are used by economists to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as … poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations such as poverty mapping, or vulnerability … models to predict poverty under these different scenarios. It finds that the quality of predictions and the choice of the …

proximity in the income distribution to the reference individual. …

This paper examines the association between income, income inequalities and health inequalities in Europe. The … contribution of this paper is to study different hypotheses linking self-perceived health status and income, allowing for the … identification of different mechanisms in income-related health inequalities. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and …