In this paper the author shows that signed temporal changes of firm size variables follow the power-law for large changes; while, for middle changes a log-normal distribution is found. In the analyses, the author employed three databases: high-income data, high-sales data and positive-profits...

In this paper the author shows that signed temporal changes of firm size variables follow the power-law for large changes; while, for middle changes a log-normal distribution is found. In the analyses, the author employed three databases: highincome data, high-sales data and positive-profits...

The current paper experiments with the conception and analytical model of principle components. The analysis utilizes data of Sudan to test the model fitness and data suitability. All the country's economic sectors are used in the analysis which also integrates high, medium and low income strata...

While the "relative Gini coefficient" is one of the common criteria for measuring inequality, people's perception of inequality seems to go beyond this criterion. Hence, self-report of subjective well-being (SWB) is becoming the focus of studies in public policies to improving social welfare....

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality...

Since November 2014, the population's real disposable money income have been steadily on the decline. Data for January – September 2015 point to a rising poverty rate. In 2015, the share of personal income spent on commodities and services hit its record low of the past 16 years. The share of...

Contemporary American interest in using antitrust law to address wealth inequality is a symptom of American political dysfunction rather than a reflection of any intellectual advance regarding the sources of inequality. Indeed, both the original American progressives of a century ago, as well as...

There remains a debate about the true level of wealth inequality in the UK, but the trends do not conform to the story of unprecendented or spiralling inequality that are frequently implied in the media. Wealth inequality recently widened for the first time in a decade. However, this was...

Serbian. U posleratnom razvoju dogodile su se u nekim oblastima vrlo duboke, može se reći i dramatične promene. Jedna od takvih oblasti je i poljoprivreda. Kao ilustracija ovih promena uzimaju se ovi pokazatelji: 1947. godine poljoprivreda je u formiranju društvenog proizvoda učestvovala sa...

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality...