Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994)and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptionsof income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out using aquestionnaire-experimental approach that...

The theory of functional equations is used to clarify the relationship between equilibrium distributions of wealth and population parameters such as the distribution of families by size, marriage patterns, tax mechanisms and savings behaviour within a simple model of inheritance.

This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple rule to compensate for the lack of regional poverty...

When families reform there are implications for the income distribution through a number of economic mechanisms: income sharing, changes in household need, reweighting the distribution. These changes are distinct from those that generate changes in factor income or transfers and may affect...

The most commonly cited explanations for the low employment rates of British lone mothers are disincentives provided by the benefit system and a lack of suitable jobs or affordable childcare. This is the first British study focusing on lone mothers' employment rates that includes direct measures...

This paper provides new estimates of the distribution of extended income among nonelderly, one-family households in the United Kingdom by combining household money income data and valuations of household production time. Extended income is substantially more equal than money income and extending...

The authors derive criteria for ranking income distributions where households differ in equity-relevant nonincome characteristics ('needs'), using methods that do not require cardinal specifications of equivalence scales. They consider comparisons for situations where the distributions of needs...

The authors provide evidence about U.K. trends in gender differentials in market work time, domestic work time, and their sum (total work time) between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. The ratio of women's total work hours to men's total work hours changed little, but for both sexes allocations of...

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between these two indicators across EU countries drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data....