Journal of Income Distribution
Last updated ISSN 0926-6437
Journal of Income Distribution is published by Elsevier BV in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Income Distribution concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Economic theories and models
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0926-6437, 1874-6322 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 553 |
| Publishing since | 1992 |
| Journal website | www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09266437 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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