For that, we follow a comparative approach, comparing it with India—a country with a very different pattern in which inequality is much lower for expenditure than for income. We investigate the extent to which the difference between the two countries comes from differences in the composition of...
ESCAP(Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific) in its annual report for 2006 has clearly stated "Increasing inequality in tandem with high growth has been appoint of growing concern in the Asia and Pacific region. Though perfect equality is probably unattainable, inequality becomes a problem ...
InequalityIncomeIndividual healthIndiaIndia has experienced a significant increase in income inequality in the past decade. It is widely accepted in the literature that income inequality is detrimental to individual health. Against this backdrop, the objective of the paper is to analyze the effect of...
Decomposition of Old-Age Income Inequality in South Korea, 1998-2010. This study examines the redistributive effects of public pensions on old-age income inequality, testing whether public pensions function as the "great equa... Sun-Jae,Hwang - 《Journal of Aging & Social Policy》 被引量: 3...
Inequality, growth and mobility: The intertemporal distribution of income in European countries 2003–2007 This paper exploits EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions longitudinal data 2003-2007 to describe the intertemporal distribution of income in twent... PV Kerm,MNP Alperin - 《Economic Mo...
Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2015 This paper evaluates income tax reforms in China and India. The combination of fast income growth and under-indexed tax schedule in China implies the fract... T Piketty,N Qian - 《American Economic Journal Applied ...
Increasing housing security, medical, agriculture, forestry and other expenditures has a significant impact on improving the income inequality between rural and urban inhabitants; the impact of government investment in the western, central, and eastern regions on the reduction of income variation is ...
This study uses a decomposition analysis of income inequality by income groups and income sources to understand and explain the inequality increase in Finland during the 1990's. Several conclusions can be drawn from our results. Total inequality rose significantly during the latter part of the 1990...
"Unfortunately, for a variety of practical and political reasons, government statistics have not been a reliable source of information onincome inequalityin today's China," Xie said. The U-M researchers calculated an internationally accepted measure of income inequality, the Gini coefficient, and com...
In India, a set of factors including the roots of social system deficiencies, economic growth, globalization and its tools such as privatization and trade liberalization are among the main causes of continuing inequality in Indian society today, which seems to be a contin...