OBJECTIVES Despite a large body of empirical literature, a consensus has not been reached concerning the health effects of income inequality. This study contributes to ongoing debates by examining the robustness of the income inequality-population health relationship in Argentina, using five different income inequality indexes (each sensitive to inequalities in differing parts of the income spe...

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between trade uncertainty and income inequality. In countries where only a small share of the population is educated, an increase in trade uncertainty is associated with a significant increase in income inequality. As education of the population increases the relationship between trade uncertainty and income inequality becomes more muted. Trade unce...

INTRODUCTION Health-income inequality has been the focus of many studies. The relationship between economic conditions and health has also been widely studied. However, not much is known about how changes in aggregate economic conditions relate to health-income inequality. Nevertheless, such knowledge would have both scientific and practical value as substantial public expenditures are used to ...

Purpose — This paper aims to examine the relationship between shadow economy and income inequality in Nigeria.Method The employed Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL), Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS), Granger causality. methodology is used avoid endogeneity heterogeneity model. gauged using two diverse indicators of Gini coefficient: index proportion household disposable market in...

In this paper we conduct a multilevel analysis to examine how regional income inequality affects self-rated health in Japan based on two nationwide surveys. We confirm that prefecture-level income inequality significantly affects self-assessments of health by individuals, even after controlling for a broad set of both individual and regional variables. We also find that health assessment is mor...

The issue of health inequalities has steadily gained attention in South Korea, as income inequality widened and social polarization increased following the country's economic crisis in the late 1990s. While official figures indicate a general trend of worsening mental health, with rapidly rising rates of suicide and depression in particular, the extent of socio-economic inequality with respect ...

BACKGROUND Accelerated population ageing brings about unprecedented challenges to the health system in China. This study aimed to measure the prevalence and the income-related inequality of depressive symptoms, and also identify the determinants of depressive symptom inequality among the elderly in China. METHODS Data were drawn from the second wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitud...

This paper addresses the implications of the winner-take-all economy for income inequality among artists. Using the U.S. census public-use samples, as refined by the Minnesota Population Center, it employs the standard measure of income inequality—the Gini coefficient—to examine income inequality among artists in six major metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000. The paper compares income ineq...

INTRODUCTION This study assessed income-related health inequality and health achievement in children in China, and additionally, examined province-level variations in health achievement. METHODS Longitudinal data on 19,801 children under 18 years of age were derived from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. Income-related health inequality and health achievement were measured by the Health ...