Volume 18, Number 3-4: September-December 2009

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Special Issue: Income Distribution and the Family
Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt, Christian Seidl
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Per-capita income versus household-need adjusted income: a cross-country comparison
Christos Koulovatianos, Polina Minkovski, Carsten Schröder
11
Poverty orderings and intra-household inequality: The Lost Axiom
Eugenio Peluso, Alain Trannoy
24
Male Income, Female Income, and Household Income Inequality in Israel: A Decomposition Analysis
Ayal Kimhi
34
A Note on Between-Group Inequality with an Application to Households
Maria Monti, Alessandro Santoro
49
Are we really Mama’s boys? How incomes affect Italians’ leaving-home decisions
Filippo Belloc
63
Intergenerational Earnings Mobilities – How Sensitive are they to Income Measures?
Mohammad Azhar Hussain, Martin D. Munk, Jens Bonke
79
Labor Supply Decisions, Occupational Segregation, and Intergenerational Income Mobility – Germany and the United States Compared
Veronika Eberharter
93
Ageing and the Family in Indonesia: An Exploration of the Effect of Elderly Care-Giving on Female Labor Supply
Elisabetta Magnani, Anu Rammohan
110
Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Micro-simulation Study for Germany
Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
131
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
152
Dynamic Health Care Decisions and Child Health in South Africa
Olufunke A. Alaba, Steven F. Koch
188
Equal opportunities for all children in Vietnam? Assessing the distribution of child poverty from a monetary and multidimensional perspective
Keetie Roelen, Franziska Gassmann
206
Assets of the Market, Assets of the Rural World: Pastoral Market Income Distribution in the Senegalese Sahel (Ferlo)
Abdrahmane Wane, Ibra Touré, Véronique Ancey
232
Regional Poverty and Its Determinants in Iran
Ashan Shooshtarian, Mohammad Bakhshoodeh
249
Are public policies effective in alleviating family income inequality in Iran?
Nasser Khiabani, Ali Mazyaki
268