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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 …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the absolute and relative income mobility in disposable income in New Zealand … using the full longitudinal data from the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) from 2002 to 2010. To summarise … the patterns of mobility, we analyse the income changes over the short-term (annual) and a longer term interval (eight …
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This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project …, expressed as the constant purchasing power, continued between 2007 and 2013. We also show that income growth from 2007 to 2013 …
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It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930123
differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income … credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more …
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It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down oors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947605
European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality – that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor – less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality,...
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It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960820
with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …
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A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262805