Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the distributional implications of using full income instead of … disposable income in the analysis of economic inequality. For that purpose the authors employ a very extensive list of noncash … inequality under a comprehensive definition of income. Design/methodology/approach – The study employs the microdata of the 2004 …

Purpose – Individuals earn their income from different sources in an economy. Persons being engaged with different … occupations have different income levels. Welfare level thus varies from person to person. Obviously an indignant feeling arises … out of interpersonal shortages of income which is viewed as relative deprivation of the person to whom shortages are …

system can solve the dual problem of economic growth and income distribution. A synergy of the two systems will therefore be …

A major objective of the Israeli Old Age and Survivors (OAS) programme is focused on: redistribution of income. The … effects on income distribution within one generation and across generations are studied. It was found that the programme is … very effective. It takes more than 4 per cent of the gross income of the more affluent people in the sample and gives more …

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 …

Before the economic reforms, the main problem in the distribution of income in China had been egalitarianism. The … young generation in the distribution of income. The situation is undergoing a change in the economic reforms. China mainly …