significant negative relationships with per capita income, the percentage of elderly female drivers, seat belt use, and …

determines the trade‐off between a stable distribution of income and the external balance is first derived. As a second step the …

income inequality in the short run/long run? Is the relationship unidirectional from income inequality to poverty as the … income inequality and poverty within a multivariate framework using a panel data set of 50 US states over the period 1980 to … 2004. Findings – The results reveal that a bidirectional relationship exists between poverty and income inequality both in …

GDP. The income elasticity coefficients of the expenditure variables were then estimated. The direction of causality was … income‐elastic. However, with the exception of total expenditure (te), insurance trust benefits (ins) and social services and … income maintenance (ssim), no other non‐stationary expenditure variable was co‐integrated with pcgdp and error‐corrected over …

direct and indirect effects of ethnic and religious heterogeneity on income inequality using US data.  …

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 …

paper uses a sample of 19 developing economies and finds that cross‐country variations in income/consumption inequality may … human capital exhibiting increasing returns it is possible to have persistent inequality in the distribution of income or … land distribution and in access to education as well as inequalities in child health do linearly influence income or …

affect post‐retirement income in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate a PROBIT model and perform a … found that the current system of public and private schemes has not substantially improved pension income dispersion among … income rather than focussing only on some measures of dispersion.  …

The problems involved in trying to measure the effect of the budget on the distribution of lifetime income are reviewed … lowest deciles when a lifetime income perspective is taken.  …

patterns of income distribution (as represented by quintile income shares) on GFR and FLPR and interaction between the two … endogenous variables. The empirical results suggest that: (1) while income redistribution in favour of the poorest may be … expected to reduce GFR, an even larger reduction in GFR may be expected when the income redistribution favours middle‐income …