Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of private and public initiatives (financial literacy, entrepreneurship, remote work and government aid) on individual job loss and decrease in income during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. Design/methodology/approach The authors used...

The purpose of this article is to examine trends in ‘middle class welfare’ in Australia, defined as the extent of cash transfers going to working age families with incomes above the second decile in the distribution of family incomes, net of the income taxes that these families pay. We use...

The Poverty Wars started with a coordinated series of skirmishes by the Centre for Independent Studies. One of their main criticism of income-based measures of poverty is that measurement error(i.e. under-reporting) is pronounced for low income earners, especially those who indicate they have an...

A microeconomic model is developed, which accurately predicts the shape of personal income distribution (PID) in the United States and the evolution of the shape over time. The underlying concept is borrowed from geo-mechanics and thus can be considered as mechanics of income distribution. The...

A microeconomic model is developed, which accurately predicts the shape of personal income distribution (PID) in the United States and the evolution of the shape over time. The underlying concept is borrowed from geo-mechanics and thus can be considered as mechanics of income distribution. The...

There are extensive literatures within economics and economic psychology on the allocation of household income within the household.  These two literatures are largely disjoint but both use a concept of 'income pooling'.  In economics this refers to the independence of household decisions from...

Die mehr als 20 000 Künstler in Berlin und die knapp 80 000 Erwerbstätigen in anderen "kreativen" Berufen (zum Beispiel Architekten, Software- Entwickler, Werbefachleute) erwirtschafteten im Jahr 2006 zusammen ein Einkommen von 2,1 Milliarden Euro. Sie trugen damit ein Zehntel zur gesamten...

This paper deals with the distribution effects from 2000 to 2007 of the tax/benefit systems on net disposable incomes of dependents. The impact is evaluated by adopting the net average tax rates (i.e. income tax plus employees’ social security contributions less cash benefits) as a percentage...

There are extensive literatures within economics and economic psychology on the allocation of household income within the household. These two literatures are largely disjoint but both use a concept of ‘income pooling’. In economics this refers to the independence of household decisions from...