...Samuel Sekyi; Philip Kofi Adom; Emmanuel Agyapong Wiafe Purpose This study examined the influence of income and health insurance on the health-seeking behaviour of rural residents, addressing the concerns of endogeneity and heterogeneity bias. Design/methodology/approach A two-stage residual...

... Africa. Design/methodology/approach Using unemployment, income and crime rates as proxies for social and economic outcomes, the effect of literacy is examined by employing the fixed- and random-effects techniques to estimate a panel data covering nine provinces in South Africa from 2008 to 2017...

... affect self-reported health statistically. The influence of social participation on self-reported health flows through two channels: the improved mental health effect (SP-MH-SRH channel) and the increased income effect (SP-income-SRH channel). In comparison with the SAP-income-SRH channel, the influence...

...Kashif Munir; Ayesha Kanwal Purpose The objectives of this study are threefold: firstly, to measure the impact of educational inequality on income inequality, and per capita income; secondly, to measure the impact of gender inequality in education on income inequality, per capita income...

...Nur Azirah Zahida Mohamad Azhar; Saidatulakmal Mohd Purpose Currently, Malaysia uses the Poverty Line Income (PLI) to measure poverty. This is because income measurement is the easiest way to collect data, but in its simplicity, it fails to capture the broader meaning and implications of poverty...

...Kemal Budi Mulyono; Rusdarti Rusdarti Purpose To find the root of the problem for compulsive buying behavior of students in the digital era by exploring psychological factors such as materialism, self-esteem, self-control, narcissism, money attitude and mood as boosters of the effect of income...

...Evans Otieku; Charles Godfred Ackah; David Forkuor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide statistical and empirical evidence on the motivations, income determinants and livelihood vulnerabilities of female teenage head porters. The paper draws from the motivational theory...

... is to look at the how naturalised immigrants fare in terms of income and employment chances, compared to immigrants. Design/methodology/approach Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and the 2008 European Values Study integrated data set with a final sample of 4,460 observations, this paper...

...Roslina Kamaruddin; Amir Hussin Baharuddin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the level of good aquaculture practice (GAqP) among aquaculture farmers; and to analyse the factors influence the level of practice and the importance of GAqP in increasing farmer’s income. Design...

... on the level and composition of social capital in Iran. Although industrialization has improved the level of income through which bridging social capital has increased, a large part of this effect has been balanced out as a result of worsening the income distribution due to industrialization. Since...

...Jayanta Sen; Dipti Prakas Pal 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...

...Christos Koutsampelas; Panos Tsakloglou 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 incomes...

... systems. Thus, the aim of this paper is to use analysis factors influencing household income among (agro‐) pastoralists of southern Ethiopia. This information therefore can contribute to more evidence‐based decision making occurring across pastoral areas and inform policy decisions regarding the design...

...Athula Naranpanawa; Saroja Selvanathan; Jayatilleke Bandara Purpose There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty‐related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best‐fit income distribution functions with an objective...

...Ferda Halicioglu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study empirically the dynamics of crime in Turkey at aggregate and disaggregate levels and provide empirical evidence of temporal causality between crime, health, income, divorce, urbanization and security expenditures. Design/methodology...

... a declining tendency over the period, indicating that poverty‐reducing impact of income growth has been weakening. Second, the elasticities show huge differences across the poverty lines, and generally decline with higher poverty lines. Third, while global elasticities for $1.00 poverty line bear some...

... European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions microdata for 2004‐2008. It explores the sociodemographic and economic attributes associated with child poverty in order to design the profile of income‐poor children. Furthermore, it analyses social policies efficiency in reducing child poverty...

...Sadegh Bakhtiari; Hossein Meisami Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of health and education on income distribution and poverty in selected Islamic countries. Design/methodology/approach A model of income inequality along with a model of poverty, with same...

... of these differences are much larger than the highly publicized cases of China and India. Third, since ICP numbers are more accurate, existing WDI and PWT data are noted to substantially understate intercountry income inequality. Fourth, comparison of ICP with WDI shows a pattern which is similar to that indicated...

...; in particular, how do economic growth, unemployment and inflation, and institutional factors such as governance affect individual well‐being.” Quality of life Lifestyles Income Suicide South America Most of the empirical work on happiness uses survey data where subjects are asked to assess...