How does income inequality compare to more traditional measures of disadvantage, like poverty?

Affluent incomers have both positive and negative impacts on many coastal and country areas. This paper considers ideas about ‘sea change’ and ‘tree change’ and the impacts of multiple dwelling ownership, mobility and migration between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas.

The Coalition's tax cuts will entrench private affluence and deepen public squalor, argues Geoffrey Barker.

This volume asks a key question - where is the wealth of nations? Answering this question yields important insights into the prospects for sustainable development in countries around the world.

Aydogan Ulker analyses the role of the elderly couples' past marital history in determining their current wealth holdings and portfolio allocation using data from the first wave of the Health and Retirement Study. The results suggest that, while the net cost of divorce in terms of household wealth accumulation is higher for men than it...