The aim of the paper is to study the relationship of individuals’ sport goods consumption to personal income and relative sport price in Hungary in the period 1992-2006. It is shown, that the trend of the real sport goods consumption in conjunction with real income decreased till 2000 and it has been increasing since then. Income and price elasticity figures for both periods show, that sport go...

This article provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower levels of subjective well-being and a greater demand for income redistribution. The rich compare l...

OBJECTIVE Examine the cost of healthy food habits for welfare-dependent families in Australia. METHOD A seven-day meal plan was developed, based on Australian public health recommendations, for two typical welfare-dependent families: a couple-family (two adults, two children) and a one-parent family (one adult, two children). The cost of the meal plan was calculated using market brand and gen...

This paper reviews and discusses Internet issues and reports the findings of a survey concerning the impact of gender, age and income on employees' Internet usage in Turkey. Internet usage was categorized in two empirical factors, namely usage profile (reason for using the Internet, average daily use of the Internet) and usage patterns (average daily use of the Internet for communication/e-mail...

Cordeiro (2002a) has presented a multiple state model for Income Protection (formerly known as Permanent Health Insurance) which enables us to analyse claims by cause of disability. In that paper average claim durations conditioned on recovery have been calculated. Since, when an Income Protection claim is reported, the insurance company never knows whether it will end in recovery, in death or ...

The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the effect of unanticipated fluctuations in income on nutrient intake and nutritional status. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income and expenditure during the transition period, with a particularly severe declin...

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel of data for more than 80 countries f...

Using data from the Assets and Debts Survey of 1984 and the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, we document the evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) wealth inequality has increased between 1984 and 1999, 2) the growth in wealth inequality has been associated with substantial declines in real average and median wealth for young co...

OBJECTIVE Chile, a South American country recently defined as a high-income nation, carried out a major healthcare system reform from 2005 onwards that aimed at reducing socioeconomic inequality in health. This study aimed to estimate income-related inequality in self-reported health status (SRHS) in 2000 and 2013, before and after the reform, for the entire adult Chilean population. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Population-based data on the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on long-term survival after myocardial infarction (MI) are lacking. We evaluated the association of income and education with all-cause mortality and cardiac mortality post-MI and assessed income-by-education interaction. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS Between February 1992 and February 1993, 1,521 consec...