BACKGROUND To better understand income-related inequalities in health care use, it is imperative to identify sources of inequalities and assess the extent to which health care use is still related to income after differences in need across the income distribution are accounted for. Little is known regarding rural-urban differences in income-related inequalities and subgroup variation in horizon...

This paper models a capital-exporting country that encounters difficulties in taxing foreignsource income, due to tax evasion problems. The paper compares the country’s optimal effective tax rates on the income from capital invested at home and abroad (including penalties levied on detected tax evaders). It finds that tax evasion abroad does not provide a justification for a relatively low effe...

Abstract Private pensions have expanded in recent decades many European countries, albeit to different extent. As private historically been more unequally distributed than public pensions, it is reasonable expect that pension privatization has increased the dispersion of incomes among retired. However, few studies empirically tested this claim. The purpose study assess how expansion affects dev...

This study investigated how filtering contributes to market-provided low-income housing in Australia. It critiques the conceptualisation of as a source for households, tests presence dynamics markets (using Melbourne and Sydney case studies) considers policy options enhancing (if so desired) tool.