Income Inequality and Household Labor

Income Inequality and Household Debt

Labor supply, income, and welfare of the farm household

Article history: Received 14 January 2011 Received in revised form 9 March 2012 Accepted 11 March 2012 Available online 28 March 2012 JEL classification: D1 J2 Q1

Collective Household Labor Supply : Non-participation and Income Taxation

In the present paper, we adopt the usual assumptions of the collective approach, i.e., individualism and efficiency, to study household labor supply. The theoretical innovation is twofold. Firstly, we incorporate in the initial setting the decision to participate to the labor market. Secondly, we abandon the assumption of linearity of the budget constraint. We show that (i) structural elements ...

State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: cross sectional national survey.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of state income inequality and individual household income with the mental and physical health of women with young children. DESIGN Cross sectional study. Individual level data (outcomes, income, and other sociodemographic covariates) from a 1991 follow up survey of a birth cohort established in 1988. State level income inequality calculated from the incom...

Correlation of Income Inequality and Entrepreneurial Activity

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...