OBJECTIVE The objective of present study is to investigate the determinants of smoking behaviour among adults in Malaysia. METHOD Findings of the Third National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS-3) by the Ministry of Health, Malaysia, were used. The sample consisted of 34,539 observations. A logistic regression model was thus applied to estimate the probability to participate in smoking. RE...

This research described the budgeting and decision-making before during COVID-19 pandemic of purposively selected low-income earners in Nueva Ecija, Philippines. Through this study, researcher would be able to compare evaluate financial strategy plans respondents. The used descriptive design through a survey questionnaire administered 60 respondents found out that they earn between P150 P420 ($...

We measure the distributional impact of COVID-19 pandemic using newly released population register data in Sweden. Monthly earnings inequality increased during pandemic, and key driver is income losses among low-paid individuals while middle- high-income earners were almost unaffected. The had a larger negative on private-sector workers women. Using individual take-up government support, we sho...

[“Not the typical high earner.” Self-perception and class identification among high-income earners in Sweden] Income inequality has increased Sweden recent decades, are winners. However, despite its privileged position, group been largely absent from research on class. In Mikael Svensson Lena Sohl’s article, we therefore get a much-needed insight into Swedish earners’ self-perception. The autho...

A significant amount of non-compliance with the personal income tax is due to individuals who have not filed a tax return and so who are not “in the system”. We use experimental laboratory methods to examine the effect of positive inducements for filing a tax return. Our design captures the essential features of a voluntary income reporting and tax assessment system: human participants earn inc...

This paper presents series on top shares of income and wealth in Spain using personal income and wealth tax return statistics. Top income shares are highest in the 1930s, fall sharply during the first decade of the Franco dictatorship, then remain stable and low till the 1980s, and have increased since the mid 1990s. The top 0.01% income share in Spain estimated from income tax data is comparab...

Gordon Berlin discusses the nation's long struggle to reduce poverty in families with children, and proposes a counterintuitive solution--rewarding the work of individuals.He notes that policymakers' difficulty in reducing family poverty since 1973 is attributable to two intertwined problems--falling wages among low-skilled workers and the striking increase in children living with a lone parent...

This paper is concerned with distributive aspects of crucial economic and institutional reforms experienced by income sources in Uruguay after the late eighties. These reforms involved both, the labor market and the pensions system, and we provide empirical evidence about the different way they affected the distribution of income. The distribution of income across all earners at the end of the ...