A cooperative comprehensive study by a group of researchers under the Luxembourg Income Study, aimed at summarizing the impact of noncash income on living standards and poverty in seven western nations. Emphasis in data analysis is placed on the life cycle perspective. The study also focuses on...

Users of socio-economic statistics typically want more and better information. Often, these needs can be met simply by more extensive data collections, subject to usual concerns over financial costs and survey respondent burdens. Users, particularly for public policy purposes, have also...

The role of technical innovation in economic growth is both a current matter of keen public policy interest, and active exploration in economic theory. However, formal economic theorizing is often constrained by considerations of mathematical tractability. Evolutionary economic theories which...

Widely used summary measures of inequality or the "disappearing middle class" are potentially misleading. Divergences between evidence cited and conclusions drawn include failing to distinguish the concepts of inequality and polarization, and using scalar ?inequality? measures which are not...