The level of disposable income inequality in Israel has increased noticeably since the mid-1980s and today it is above most developed countries. In contrast, market income inequality, which hit a record level in 2002, has reversed its course since then and has shown a sharp decline in subsequent...

Mit zunehmender Arbeitslosenrate steigt auch die ungleiche Einkommensverteilung. Dieser Effekt ist noch größer als die tendenziell gleiche Entwicklung unter Inflation. Transferzahlungen gleichen die Einkommensdiskrepanz im Beobachtungszeitraum aus. Es konnte kein Beweis gefunden werden, daß...

The level of disposable income inequality in Israel has increased noticeably since the mid-1980s and today it is above most developed countries. In contrast, market income inequality, which hit a record level in 2002, has reversed its course since then and has shown a sharp decline in subsequent...

The model presented in the paper generates important implications concerning how the allocation of resources between children varies across income groups. In the model, poor and middle-income families tend to channel their resources into a few children whereas rich families (and perhaps very...

This work finds for the first time an almost continuous trend, as of the mid-1990s, in which the income gap between households of the two major ethnic groups in Israel (European/American versus Asian/African descent) has been reduced. In 2011 the net income gap was 27 percent, whereas in the...