... treatment strategies to reduce negative externalities. The results also underscore the necessity of designing income-sensitive interventions to enhance public health outcomes. Originality/value This study is the first to provide a unified theoretical and empirical explanation of the dual effects, both...

...Nikita Céspedes-Reynaga Purpose This study aims to examine the theoretical and empirical effects of work from home (WFH) on labor market outcomes, including hours worked, consumption and income. Design/methodology/approach A formal model is introduced to explain the effects of WFH...

... between 2005 and 2012. The authors find that Gini, as a measure of income inequality, has increased irrespective of geographic regions. Design/methodology/approach Based on a recent distribution analysis tool, “ABG,” the paper focuses on local inequality, and summarizes the shape of inequality...

..., data were collected in 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1995, 2001, and 2009. Our study utilizes the data collected at ages eight, 14, and 42 and income information from tax authority registers that spans the years 2005-2009. Teacher ratings on school achievement were available at age eight, and information...

...Roberta Adami; Orla Gough; Angeliki Theophilopoulou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how changes in the distribution of pre retirement labour earnings affect post‐retirement income in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The authors estimate a PROBIT model and perform...

... variations in income/consumption inequality may be explained by inequality of investment in human capital as measured by inequalities in child health as well as inequality in education and by inequality in the distribution of land as measured by the land Gini index. Practical implications Assuming...

...Justin Doran; Declan Jordan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse income inequality for a sample of 14 European countries and their composite regions using data from the Cambridge Econometrics regional dataset from 1980 to 2009. The purpose of the paper is to provide insight...

... on welfare programs. Originality/value This is the first paper investigating the magnitude of possible direct and indirect effects of ethnic and religious heterogeneity on income inequality using US data. In respect of polarization and inequality, our direct effect model takes the form: Equation 3...

... approach to co‐integration proposed by Pesaran et al. were carried out to determine whether a long‐term equilibrium relationship existed between real per capita GDP (pcgdp) and the expenditure variables scaled by real GDP. The income elasticity coefficients of the expenditure variables were...

...Nicholas Apergis; Oguzhan Dincer; James E. Payne Purpose This study seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Is there a relationship between poverty and income inequality in the short run/long run? Is the relationship unidirectional from income inequality to poverty as the previous...

... framework is proposed based on a model with a few simple building‐blocks. A supply side relationship that determines the trade‐off between a stable distribution of income and the external balance is first derived. As a second step the model combines the supply side relationship with James Meade's analysis...

... significant negative relationships with per capita income, the percentage of elderly female drivers, seat belt use, and precipitation. Practical implications The estimates of this paper have various policy implications. For example, the findings pertaining to occupant body weight imply that efforts...

... in the distribution of income is analyzed. Finally, the adequacy of both Markovian and (time) homogeneity hypotheses in connection with the stochastic process that underlies income distribution is studied. Findings The results across the period 1986‐2000 show the evolution of countries into convergence clubs...

...Rati Ram Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the existing literature on cross‐country disparities by providing measures of cross‐country inequality in human development index (HDI) and real income per capita over the 30‐year period 1975‐2004. Design/methodology/approach A well...

...Ben‐David Nissim Purpose The main aim of this paper is to examine the effect of economic growth on worker mobility and the effect of this mobility on income distribution. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops an overlapping generation model with multiple categories of labor. In order...

...Haluk Sezer Purpose This paper aims to estimate a set of welfare weights for Turkey, based on per capita regional incomes, and to present them for possible policy consideration by the government. Design/methodology/approach An important component of the regional welfare weight measure...

... on annual personal income for the period 1926‐1999 to present empirical evidence about the notion of β‐convergence for the ten Canadian provinces. Findings The principal conclusion is that the inter‐provincial transfers were not determinant or decisive to the attainment of deterministic...

... different in economic size, is the weighting of economic units relevant in convergence analysis? The average per capita income of a given region, or country, is the first moment in the distribution of income, but what about the second moment, inequality, have we converged in inequality? An aggregate welfare...

...Girijasankar Mallik; Anis Chowdhury This paper examines the relationship between inflation and real income in Australia, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and the UK which have adopted a “formal” policy of low or zero inflation target. Using cointegration analysis and a vector error...

...John Creedy This paper uses a lifetime income simulation model to examine the effects on inequality and progressivity of extending the time period over which income is measured. The income tax schedule typically displays increasing marginal rates, and there is a substantial amount of relative...