developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer …We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … countries than for health in poorer countries. Employing panel cointegration and conventional panel regressions, we find that …

education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material … to the OECD average but contributed to large increases in income inequality and poverty that have only been partially …. Māori, Pasifika and low-income households have also experienced slower rates of improvement in many health and education …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …---have a death rate that is half that of infants of parents in the bottom ventile. When studying maternal health, we find a … racial disparities, and we observe virtually no convergence in health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups as income …

. We show that increasing inequality promotes increasing gap r - g, and vice-versa, because capital is a cumulative … endless inequality spiral. …

association of reduction of income inequality by governmental taxes and transfers (redistribution) with subjective well …-being. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of … inequality has a positive effect on well-being. Since the authors simultaneously estimate the effects of income inequality and …

also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality … greatest in the professional, financial and health sectors. In the professional sector for example, the top 1% threshold is 12 …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …

How should we make value judgments about wealth inequality? Harsanyi (1953) proposes to take an individual who … competition or contest. We find that inequality can be captured through the equilibrium properties of such a game. We connect the … inequality measures so derived to existing measures of inequality, and demonstrate the conditions under which they satisfy the …