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Decoding the “Digital Code” of Happiness: Elaboration Based on Absolute Income and Relative Income
Information and communication technology (ICT) plays an important role in improving and enhancing the well-being of Chinese farmers. This article...
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Income Aspiration, Income Comparison and Life Satisfaction: The case of Turkish Migrants in the Netherlands
This study examines the effects of income aspiration and social and economic comparison (with a wide range of reference groups) on the life...
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Analyzing household income inequality in Pakistan: a subgroup decomposition of generalized entropy measures
Analyzing Income disparities across populations has remained to be the foremost objective for policymakers. The extent of inequality can be measured...
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Measuring income inequality via percentile relativities
The adage “the rich are getting richer” refers to increasingly skewed and heavily-tailed income distributions. For such distributions, the mean is...
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Health, Income, and Suicidal Ideation Among Older Adults in South Korea: A Gender Comparison
The levels of suicide and suicidal ideation are relatively high at older ages across the world, and many researchers have explored the risk factors....
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Geographic Reference Income and the Subjective Wellbeing of Australians
In this paper panel data is used to estimate the relationship between geographic reference income and subjective wellbeing in Australia. Recent...
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Perceptions of Income Inequality and Women’s Intrasexual Competition
Income inequality has been empirically linked to interpersonal competition and risk-taking behaviors, but a separate line of findings consistently...
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A Twofold Subjective Measure of Income Inequality
Social scientists have been aiming to calculate a “subjective income Gini coefficient”of survey respondents that would describe their beliefs about...
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Income Trajectories and Precarity in Later life
This paper captures trajectories of income in later-life and considers how membership of particular income trajectories is patterned by social class,...
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Inequality and inflation relationship in middle-income countries
This research investigates the connection between inflation and inequality in 44 middle-income countries between 1996 and 2017. Our main objective is...
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Why Are Firms in High-income Economies More Productive than in Middle-income Economies? Decomposing the Firm Labor Productivity Gap
Studies have noted that output per worker varies enormously across countries. Using firm-level survey data, the present paper contributes to the...
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Assessing the Income and Subjective Wellbeing Relationship Across Sub-national Developmental Contexts
Previous studies investigating the effect of income on subjective wellbeing (SWB) have seldom accounted for the role of sub-national regional...
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Acceptance for Income Inequality in Poland
According to the contemporary theory of income inequality, the impact of this phenomenon on other economic categories is determined by the way it is...
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Household Income, Migration Networks, and Migration Decisions
This paper analyzes a rich dataset from a nationally representative Nepalese household survey to study household migration decisions considering...
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Can Multiple Shocks Affect Household Income? Evidence from Poor Rural Areas in China
When transforming from a traditional rural economy to a rapid marketization period, it is essential to consider the relationship between multiple...
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Excess Deaths in the United States Compared to 18 Other High-Income Countries
The U.S. is exceptional among high-income countries for poor survival outcomes. Understanding the distribution of excess deaths by age, sex, and...
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Tragedy: Resource Curse, Democracy and Income Inequality
This study utilized instrumental variable techniques and the Driscoll-Kraay estimator to examine the effect of democracy and natural resources on...
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An income-distributional analysis of the rent control subsidy
Rent control measures are typically in place to assist low-income households and decrease segregation. Yet, there is little empirical research on the...
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Misperceptions, Income Positions, and Attitudes Toward EU Inequality: A Cross-Country Survey Experiment
We examine the relationship between misperceptions, income positions, and attitudes toward inequality at the supranational level of the EU....
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Adoption of energy-efficiency measures by Australian low-income households
Increasing the adoption of energy-efficiency measures (EEM) by households is one of the practical strategies to increase energy efficiency and reduce...
