OBJECTIVE To compare the relation between mortality and income inequality in Canada with that in the United States. DESIGN The degree of income inequality, defined as the percentage of total household income received by the less well off 50% of households, was calculated and these measures were examined in relation to all cause mortality, grouped by and adjusted for age. SETTING The 10 Cana...

BACKGROUND China's recent growth in income has been unequally distributed, resulting in an unusually rapid retreat from relative income equality, which has impacted negatively on health services access. There exists a significant gap between health care utilization in rural and urban areas and inequality in health care access due to differences in socioeconomic status is increasing. We investig...

In Thailand, gross provincial product is highly unequal while household income exhibits moderate between-province inequality. This paper introduces a dynamic model to analyze the link between migration and cross-province inequality. The wage differential drives rural-to-urban migration and in turn the wage rate at the destination is affected by total amount of migrant labor supply. Migration ge...

abstract issue: in economic literature, there are two hypotheses regarding the link between economic development and gender inequality. the first gender inequality decreases with economic development. second, economic development increases gender inequality. this research is conducted to investigate the effects of economic development on gender inequality according to kuznets gender curve in ir...

this research aims at studying challenges, difficulties and prospects of irans income distribution sector during 2005-2015 by means of an econometric model. the first part of the paper reviews some theories and empirical accomplishments regarding income distribution in national and international levels. the next part of the paper goes through the trends of income distribution and social welfare...

While increasing income inequality in China has been commented on and studied extensively, relatively little analysis is available on inequality in other dimensions of human development. Using data from different sources, this paper presents some basic facts on the evolution of spatial inequalities in education and healthcare in China over the long run. In the era of economic reforms, as the fo...

The article analyzes theoretically the conduction mechanism of impact of FDI on the residents’ income distribution, based on the panel data of the China’s provinces from 1988 to 2005, using STATA software and other measures, studies on the direct and indirect effects of FDI to China's urban-rural income inequality from the perspective of Empirical analysis, the results show that under interacti...

equitable distribution of income and economic growth are challenges for policy-makers. therefore, it is important to investigate the influencing factors of it. given that financial development is an important factor affecting on income inequality, in this study, the effect of financial development on the gini coefficient as income inequality index is examined with using panel data methods durin...