"A common hypothesis regarding the distribution of income is that it tends to become more unequal in the initial and middle stages of economic development, in part because of demographic changes. However, previous studies of the effect of demographic changes on income distribution are not based on the underlying micro determinants of the income components." In the present paper, "the micro de...

"This paper analyzes the interaction between income distribution, human capital accumulation and migration. It shows that when migration is not a certainty, a brain drain may increase average productivity and equality in the source economy even though average productivity is a positive function of past average levels of human capital in an economy. It is also shown how the temporary possibility...

We examine the unique nature of agency problems within publicly traded family firms by investigating the earnings management decision of dominant family owners relative to nonfamily. To do so, we draw upon literature demonstrating that family owners are loss averse with respect to the family’s socioemotional wealth (SEW), or the affective endowment derived from firm ownership and control. Our t...

We examined the relation between infant mortality rates, gross national product, and income distribution. Our findings support the hypothesis that average measures of population health are influenced by the distribution of income within societies.

"This paper examines the net effects of migration and remittances on income distribution. Potential home earnings of migrants are imputed, as are the earnings of non-migrants in migrant households, in order to construct no-migration counterfactuals to compare with the observed income distribution including remittances. The earnings functions used to impute migrant home earnings are estimated fr...

agricultural research is one of the most important factors in agricultural development, thus, the role and importance of research is increasing. within the past years, all developed and consequently developing countries have engaged their most attention to promote their researches indexes. this study is investigating the effect of agricultural research on the distribution of income and agricult...

this paper explores the distributive impacts of subsidy removal in agricultural sectors and related industry in iran, using a social accounting matrix (sam)-based price model. the structural path analysis approach is used to decompose the overall influences into direct, global, and total effects. the simulation results reveal that a shock therapy strategy, which involves the removal of all subs...