When witnessing the administration of pain to an individual who behaved unfairly in an economic game, males show significantly less empathy-related neural activity than females and significantly more activity in areas associated with the processing of reward. This finding suggests that fairness concerns make males more likely to assume the role of punishing unfair behaviour and promoting cooper...

Working time reduction (WTR) is a policy that could improve quality of life while reducing environmental impacts. However, WTR coupled with salary may benefit only higher-income earners and increase social inequalities. Against this background, we analyze how the motivations for socioecological outcomes from working less vary across different socioeconomic groups. The analysis based on survey c...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The evidence supporting the effect of income inequality on health has been largely observed in societies far more egalitarian than the US. This study examines the cross sectional multilevel associations between income inequality and self rated poor health in Chile; a society more unequal than the US. DESIGN A multilevel statistical framework of 98 344 people nested within 61 9...

Study objective: The evidence supporting the effect of income inequality on health has been largely observed in societies far more egalitarian than the US. This study examines the cross sectional multilevel associations between income inequality and self rated poor health in Chile; a society more unequal than the US. Design: A multilevel statistical framework of 98 344 people nested within 61 9...

Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes? When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same extent as incomes from being an employee. On the other hand it is a problem to e...

This paper examines the migration response to a millionaire tax in New Jersey, which raised its income tax rate on top earners by 2.6 percentage points to 8.97 percent, one of the highest tax rates in the country. Drawing on unique state tax micro-data, we estimate the migration response of millionaires to the rate increase, using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy. The results ind...

This paper revisits the Atkinson–Stiglitz result on uselessness of commodity taxation in the presence of optimal non-linear income taxation in a more general setup, namely when tastes are heterogeneous. This general analysis displays the key economic assumptions under which the Atkinson–Stiglitz result is robust. A small tax on a given commodity is desirable if high income earners have a relati...

Natural disasters, mental illnesses, injuries, and crime are all known factors that lead to stress (Casarella 2020). People were in various levels of confinement due Coronavirus over the world, leading job loss inability finance basic living expenses. This study evaluated relationship between income by surveying different socioeconomic groups. All participants took anonymous PSS (Perceived Stre...