This paper studies the income inequality and economic development relationship by using unbalanced panel data on OECD and non-OECD countries for the period 1962 2003. Nonparametric estimation results show that income inequality in OECD countries are almost on the backside of the inverted-U, while non-OECD countries are approximately on the foreside, except that the relationship in both country ...

This article assesses various underlying driving factors for the evolution of household earnings inequality for 23 OECD countries from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. There are a number of factors at play. Some are related to labour market trends – increasing dispersion of individual wages and changes in men's and women's employment rates. Others relate to shifts in household structures and fam...

This paper briefly summarises the evidence that Ireland has a relatively high level of income inequality, which has been rather stable over time and reflects institutional legacies and choices made in the past. A comparative and over time perspective suggests that modest reductions in income inequality are achievable within the framework of Ireland’s current socioeconomic model, but bringing it...

it is argued that language learning is regarded as the cornerstone of human existence. the widespread use of english as an international language makes it highly important in the world. it is no more working as the status of language of the elite class or the educated class of the society such as professors, rather it is working as an instrument to bring success in life. nowadays, teachers need...

Niche construction theory is a relatively new approach in evolutionary biology that seeks to integrate an ecological dimension into the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection. It is regarded by many evolutionary biologists as providing a significant revision of the Neo-Darwinian modern synthesis that unified Darwin's theory of natural and sexual selection with 20th century populatio...

background: the aim of this study was to survey the iranian parasitology researchers’ performance, and analyse and visualize the scientific outputs of their co-authorship network. methods: this study was conducted using scientometric method and social network analysis (sna). the data extracted from the web of science (wos) databases in july 10th 2014. totally, 1048documents of all types in rese...

OBJECTIVE To examine at 7 years the language abilities of children, the salience of early life factors and language scores as predictors of language outcome, and co-occurring difficulties METHODS: A longitudinal cohort study of 1910 infants recruited at age 8 to 10 months. Exposures included early life factors (sex, prematurity, birth weight/order, twin birth, socioeconomic status, non-English ...