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Articles

• Sources of Income Persistence: Evidence from Rural El Salvador, Walter Sosa-Escudero, Mariana Marchionni and Omar Arias

• Sectoral Growth and the Distribution of Income across Ethnic Groups in Malaysia, Mohd Yusof Saari

• Growth, Employment and Poverty in South Africa: In Search of a Trickle-Down Effect, Nicholas M Odhiambo

• More on Non-White Poverty and Economic Growth in the United States, Gary A Hoover, Sondra R Collins, and Mehmet E. Yaya

• How Income Mobility Affects Income Inequality: US Evidence in the 1980s and the 1990s, Thomas Hungerford

• A Continuous-Time Model of Income Dynamics, Mark Matthias Trede and Thorsten Heimann

• Wage Inequality and Structure of Consumption Demand, Takeo Hori

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• Fair Wages and Social Welfare, Fritz Helmedag

• Income Diversification as Income Maximizing Strategy, Wolfgang Lechthaler

• Economic Gains from Educational Transfers in Kind in Germany, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg

• Retirement and the Poverty of the Elderly: The Case of Portugal, Paula Cristina Albuquerque, Manuela Arcanjo, Vítor Manuel Escária, Francisco José Nunes, José António Pereirinha

• A Resource-Based Approach to the Modeling and Simulation of Income Distribution: The Case of Pakistan, Matteo Pedercini, Muhammad Azeem Qureshi

• Pro-Poor Growth and the Lognormal Distribution, Peter J. Lambert

Book Reviews

• Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective, James B. Davies, Christopher Brown

• A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Gregory Clark, Marc C. Schramm

• The Politics of Justification. Party Competition and Welfare-State Retrenchment in Denmark and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1998, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Wil Arts

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• Estimating Global Poverty; Towards a Unified Approach, Massoud Karshenas

• Firm Size and the Relationship Between Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance, Homero Zambrano

• Macro/Micro Modelling and Gini Multi-Decomposition: An Application to the Philippines, Stéphane Mussard, Luc Savard

• Economic Inequality in Portugal: A Picture in the Beginnings of the 21st Century, Santiago Budria

• Lorenz Curve Interpolation and the Gini Coefficient, Nicholas Charles Rohde

Book Review

• Book Review: Poverty and Income Distribution, Edward N. Wolff, Charles Beach

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• Visualizing and Testing Convergence Between Two Income Distributions, John A Bishop, K. Victor Chow, Lester A. Zeager

• Information matrix test An application using Pareto’s original income distribution data, Enlinson Mattos, Vladimir Ponczek

• Convergence of Spanish Regions, 1990-2003. A New Approach Using Stochastic Dominance Techniques, Carmelo García, Ismael Ahamdanech, Mercedes Prieto

• Immigration and Income Inequality: A Comparative Study of Denmark and Germany, 1984-2003, Mette Deding, M Azhar Hussain, Vibeke Jakobsen, Stefanie Brodmann
  
  
• Agricultural Policy Reform and Its Impact on Farm Households Income Inequality, Ashok K Mishra, Hisham El-Osta, Saleem Shaik

• Dynamics of Factor Income Shares in the United States, Philip N. Jefferson, Frederic L. Pryor

• The Role of Cultural Attributes in Inequality and Poverty, Miki Malul, Amir Shoham, Leon Zolotoy

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• Introduction to Special Issue: Income Distribution and the Family, Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt, Christian Seidl
• Per-capita income versus household-need adjusted income: a cross-country comparison, Christos Koulovatianos, Polina Minkovski, Carsten Schröder
• Poverty orderings and intra-household inequality: The Lost Axiom, Eugenio Peluso, Alain Trannoy
• Male Income, Female Income, and Household Income Inequality in Israel: A Decomposition, Ayal Kimhi
• A Note on Between-Group Inequality with an Application to Households, Maria Monti, Alessandro Santoro
• Are we really Mama’s boys? How incomes affect Italians’ leaving-home decisions, Filippo Belloc
• Intergenerational Earnings Mobilities – How Sensitive are they to Income Measures? Mohammad Azhar Hussain, Martin D. Munk, Jens Bonke
• Labor Supply Decisions, Occupational Segregation, and Intergenerational Income Mobility – Germany and the United States Compared, Veronika Eberharter
• Ageing and the Family in Indonesia: An Exploration of the Effect of Elderly Care-Giving on Female Labor Supply, Elisabetta Magnani, Anu Rammohan
• Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Micro-simulation Study for Germany, Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
• How important were social and labour market policies in reducing poverty across different families in Argentina? A dynamic approach, Roxana Maurizio, Barbara Perrot, Soledad Villafañe
• Dynamic Health Care Decisions and Child Health in South Africa, Olufunke A. Alaba, Steven F. Koch
• Equal opportunities for all children in Vietnam? Assessing the distribution of child poverty from a monetary and multidimensional perspective, Keetie Roelen, Franziska Gassmann
• Assets of the Market, Assets of the Rural World: Pastoral Market Income Distribution in the Senegalese Sahel (Ferlo), Abdrahmane Wane, Ibra Touré, Véronique Ancey
• Regional Poverty and Its Determinants in Iran, Ashan Shooshtarian, Mohammad Bakhshoodeh
• Are public policies effective in alleviating family income inequality in Iran? Nasser Khiabani, Ali Mazyaki

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• Cultural Persistence as Behavior Towards Risk: Evidence from the North Carolina Cherokees, 1850-1880, Matthew T.
• Determinants of Poverty Among Farming Households in Kogi State of Nigeria, Bolarin T. Omonona, Foluso Y. Okunmadewa
• Factors associated to poverty mobility in Greater Buenos Aries, Luis Beccaria, Roxana Maurizio
• Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany, Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze
• How Representative are Representative Workers? An Assessment of the Hypothetical Workers Commonly Used in Social Security Studies, Wade D. Pfau
• The Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality for Education and Earnings, Michael Beenstock
• Decision Risks and Individual Development Accounts: An Alternative View, Edmund Khashadourian
• The Estimation of Poverty and Inequality through Parametric Estimation of Lorenz Curves: An Evaluation, Camelia Minoiu, Sanjay G. Reddy

Notes

• Maximum Entropy and the Entropy of Mixing for Income Distributions Abstract, G.R. Mohtashami Borzadaran, Zahra Behdani

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• Functional Distribution, Capital Accumulation and Growth in a Non-Linear Macrodynamic Model, Gilberto Tadeu Lima
• The ‘extended’ Atkinson family and changes in the expenditure distribution, Francisco J. Goerlich-Gisbert, Casilda Lasso de la Vega, Ana Marta Urrutia
• A Unified Approach to Economic Dominance and Inequality Measures using a General Transformation Function, Subir Ghosh
• Globalisation and Wage Inequality: A Comparison of the Manufacturing Sector in Canada and the United States from 1970 to 2001, Gilles Grenier, Akbar Tavakoli
• Intercity Income Inequality Growth and Convergence in China, Gordon Anderson, Ying Ge
• Spatial Convergence in Height in Central Europe, 1890-1910, Marek Brabec, John Komlos
• Fiscal Decentralization, Commitment and Regional Inequality: Evidence from State-level Cross-sectional Data for the United States, Nobuo Akai, Masayo Hosio
• An Econometric Analysis of the Links Between Income Inequality and Economic Growth, Yohannes G. Hailu, Tesfa G. Gebremedhin, Randall W. Jackson
• New Look at the Economic Well-Being of the Elderly in the United States, 1989-2001, Edward Wolff, Ajit Zacharias

Book Reviews

• Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America, by Ronald J. Sider, Samuel L. Myers Jr.
• Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer, by Sally C. Pipes, Richard W. Johnson

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Introduction to Special Issue on Technology and Labor Markets, Michael Sattinger

Articles

• The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution, and Technical Change: A Critical Review, Arnaud Dupuy
• Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption
  
• Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure, Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel
• Information and Communications Technologies, Coordination and Control, and the Distributionof Income Abstract, Frederick Guy, Peter Skott
• Computers and the Gender Wage Differential, Linda Yuet-Yee Wong

Book Reviews

• Redesigning the Welfare State: Germany’s Current Agenda for an Activating Social Assistance,
  
• by H.W. Sinn, C. Holzner, W. Meister, W. Ochel, and M. Werding - Loek Groot
• The New Geography of Global Income Inequality, by Glenn Firebaugh - Frank Cowell
• Miracle for Whom? Chilean Workers Under Free Trade, by Janine Berg - Osvaldo Larrañaga
• Ethical Codes and Income Distribution: A Study of John Bates Clark and Thorstein Veblen, by
  
• Guglielmo Forges Davanzati - John F. Henry

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Editorial, Omar F. Hamouda

Articles

• A Consumption Model of Income Inequality, Walter J. Wessels
• Income Distribution and Consumption Deprivation: An Analytical Link, Sushanta K. Mallick
• Modelling Income Using the Generalised Lambda Distribution, Haritha N. Haridas, N.
  
• Unnikrishnan Nair, K.R. Muraleedharan Nair
• Can we Measure Inequalities without Measuring Equalities?, Stéphane Mussard
• Parental Background and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility - Germany and the United
  
• States compared, Veronika Eberharter

Book Reviews

• Income Distribution in Japan: Evidence and Policies for Tackling Widening Inequality, eds
  
• Takashi Oshio, Eiji Tajika, and Tetsuo Fukawa - Toshiaki Tachibanaki

Note

Models for Measured Income, Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz

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Editorial, Omar F. Hamouda

Articles

• The Relationship Among Poverty, Economic Growth, and Inequality Revisited, Lonnie K. Stevans, David N. Sessions
• Revealed Social Preferences for Equality and Growth, David Kiefer, Shahrukh Rafi Khan
• Credit Constraints and Job Mobility, Paul A. Hagstrom, Ann L. Owen
• Capital Outflow Controls and Income Distribution in Malaysia, Jarita Duasa
• The Beaman Distribution: A New Descriptive Model for the Size Distribution of Incomes, Fiona C. Maclachlan, John E. Reith
• How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed Over the 1990s Business Cycle: A Comparison
  
• of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan, Richard V. Burkhauser, Takashi Oshio, Ludmila Rovba
• Wage Inequality in Post-Reform Mexico, Jim Airola, Chinhui Juhn

Book Reviews

• A Short History of Distributive Justice, Samuel Fleischacker - Phillip Nelson
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, Carlota Perez - Jonathan Michie

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Introduction

Introduction to the Special Issue of the JID on Income Inequality in Japan, Takashi Oshio, Ejii Tajika, Tetsuo Fukawa

Articles

• Income Inequality Trends and their Challenges to Redistribution Policies in Japan, Tetsuo Fukawa, Takashi Oshio
• Income Distribution of People of Retirement Age in Japan, Atsuhiro Yamada
• The Role of Personal Income Tax to Mitigate Widening Income Inequality: the Case of Japan, Ejii Tajika, Hiroyuki Yashio
• The Impact of the Increase in Non-regular Employment on Income Disparities, Seiichi Inagaki
• Welfare Use in Japan: Trends and Determinants, Wataru Suzuki, Yanfei Zhou
• The Role of Married Women's Labor Supply on Family Earnings Distribution in Japan, Yukiko Abe, Akiko S. Oishi

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• Income distribution and macroeconomics in Colombia, Javier A. Birchenall
• Measuring the Impact of Growth and Income Distribution on Poverty in India, Shatakshee Dhongde
• Rising Wage Inequality in Mexico, 1984-2000: A Distributional Analysis, Gurleen K. Popli
• Environmental Damage and its Impacts on Inequality and Poverty: Applications to Brazil and Costa Rica, Mariano Torras
• Replacing Income in Retirement for the Newly Retired: A Distributional Analysis of Gross and Net Replacement Rates, Keith A. Bender
• Self-employment and earning inequality, Jean-Marc Falter
• A Note On The Principle Of Equal Opportunities, Fernando Cabrales, Ana Fernández, Fritz Grafe

Book Reviews

• Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, Volume III, eds Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, and Robert Lang - Sidney Carroll
• Doing Development in Arkansas; Using Credit to Create Opportunity for Entrepreneurs Outside the Mainstream, Richard P. Taub - Jan Lambooy
• Pension Reform and Economic Theory. A Non-Orthodox Analysis, Sergio Cesaratto - Bas van Groezen

Communication

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Editorial

Articles

• Wage Dispersion in Finland: Searching for Human Capital, Hannu Piekkola
• Comparing Annual and Lifetime Earnings: Distributions and Wage Premiums for a Cohort of Swedish Men, Sofia Sandgren
• A European Analysis of Changes in Gender Specific Wage Inequality Using Decomposition Methods, Andreas Behr
• Globalization and the Concept of Subsistence Wages, Walter Block, Jerry Dauterive, John Levendis
• Single Parent Families and the Shifting Distribution of US Family Well-Being, Bradford F. Mills
• The Dynamics of Low Income and Persistent Poverty Among U.S. Families, John J. Hisnanick
• Examining the Relationship Between the Poverty Rate and Economic Conditions in the Southern United States, Gary A. Hoover, Geoffrey Wallace

Book Reviews

• The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Fourth Century of the Hijra, Tenth century CE, Michael Brett - Y. S. Brenner
• Producing Against Poverty: Female and Male Micro-entrepreneurs in Lima, Peru, Annelou Ypeij - Nicole Bourque, Robert Wright
• The Distribution of Wealth, Michael Schneider - Nico Wilterdink