Households in developing countries adopt livelihood strategies that often rely on income from a diversity of sources. From a policy perspective it therefore becomes important to understand the relative importance of income sources in driving inter-household inequality and poverty.

The purpose of this paper is twofold: it presents the current state of the welfare state in the European Union, and it considers its future prospects given the various challenges to which it is exposed. In the presentation of social protection, which is the main component of the welfare state,...

Growing up in a family that lacks a biological father is correlated with a number of poor outcomes for youths. This study uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 to examine the extent to which differences in income or in parental involvement can explain the effects of family...

This paper seeks to evaluate the findings of cross-national research on the relationship between income inequality and democracy and to assess the prospects of future research in the area.

This paper provides a survey of normative approaches to inequality measurement, to be published as a chapter in a volume of income inequality. We present general methods for deriving ethical inequality indexes from social-evaluation orderings such as the Atkinson-Kolm-Sen and Kolm procedures.

The paper examines the structure of inequality in Greece using the micro-data of a Household Budget Survey carried out in 1987/88.

The paper examines the structure of inequality in Greece using the micro-data of a Household Budget Survey carried out in 1987/88.

In this paper, we show that the third inverse stochastic dominances introduced by Muliere and Scarsini (1989) is nicely connected with the Yaari's dual model. We show especially that the third inverse stochastic dominance is closely linked with the non-negativity of third derivative of the...