proximity in the income distribution to the reference individual. …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a substantial impact of ill-health on income, mainly operating through employment, although the magnitude of ill …

it is a key policy lever for income redistribution. This paper analyses how income distribution patterns changed in Spain … before and after the crisis using the personal income tax samples constructed by the Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies for … the period 2002 to 2011. We find that the top and bottom of the income distribution gained the most from the boom period …

Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a … search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few … provides non-divisible services to consumers, with physicians our prime example. Examining local income inequality across U …

Survey (BHPS), we estimate permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984–2009 and 1991 … households in smoothening earnings shocks, we compute different income concepts ranging from gross earnings to net equivalent … household income. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany and the United Kingdom has been rising …

income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …-mobility countries turn out to be ambiguous. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; inequality ; income distribution …