Tax policy analysts in Canada have widely promoted shifting revenues away from the personal income tax and toward the … to the personal tax are concentrated in the highest income groups, and these constitute the largest departure from …

strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …

In Canada, poverty policy and discourse focuses on annual estimates of low income. Assuming that assets, independent … from income, represent an alternative view of well-being we introduce an asset-based measurement of poverty for Canada … at the low-income cutoff for three months. Data from the 1999 and 2005 cycles of the Survey of Financial Security suggest …

total income/expenditures. Intuitively, we ask: "How much higher (as a ratio) would the expenditures of a household at 1 …

middle class either. We define them as the vulnerable “strugglers”, people living in households with daily income per capita … about a third of the total population.We argue that in many upper-middle income countries of the region, the strugglers will …

tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth … inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and compare its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect …

Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines … determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance … first- and second-order dominance in distribution of income and consumption. The results provide a detailed and up …

This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F … provide comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide …

the relationship between income inequality, bank credit, and financial stability. We analyze the relationship between … income inequality and bank credit in panel cointegration framework and find that they have a long-run dependency relationship …. Results show that income inequality has contributed to the increase of bank credit in developed economies after the Second …