Search Results - subject:"HOUSEHOLD INCOME"

Women's Economic Empowerment : Paving the Way for Household Income Enhancement

Sahari, Noorul Huda; Alias, Baterah; Aris, Suliah Mohd; … - 2022

Objective - Women with careers nowadays play an important role in their household income to support breadwinner …

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The Impacts of International Remittances on Child Labor and Household Welfare

Duman, Erkan - 2022

This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on child labor and household welfare by presenting evidence from Turkey. Remittances by alleviating resource constraints may improve household welfare and help reduce labor supply of children in exchange of accumulating more schooling....

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The Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Low-Income Households : A Multi-City Comparison of Nielsen Purchasing Data

Barker, Abigail; Mazzucca, Stephanie; An, Ruopeng - 2022

Due to increased awareness among policymakers of the role that sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) play in the obesity epidemic, SSB taxes have been enacted in California cities of Albany, Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco as well as in Boulder, Philadelphia, and Seattle. We pooled five years of...

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Income Business Cycles

Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Pasch, … - 2022

We document the cyclical behavior of the post-tax income distribution in the US. The analysis is based on a dataset that is informative for the lower and the upper tail of the post-tax income distribution and that also matches aggregate national income. Most importantly, lower and higher income...

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Unemployment Insurance and Household Welfare : Microeconomic Evidence 1980-93

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Slesnick, Daniel T. - 2022

This study examines the relative economic well-being of households that receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, as measured by consumption flows that are derived from information on households' spending in the Consumer Expenditure Surveys from 1980- 1993. For each quarter during this...

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Capital Development and Household Income Gap : The Case of Malaysia

Zainudin, Zuhairie; Ong, Hway-Boon; Yoke, Chong Choy - 2022

average income between these household groups has been increasing since 2002. An increase in the household income gap would …. The augmented Solow’s growth model is applied to include the impact of capital on reducing the household income gap. In …, gross fixed capital and technological progress on the average household income gaps. The implication of this study is to …

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Permanent Income Shocks, Target Wealth, and the Wealth Gap

Jappelli, Tullio; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2022

We test the key implication of the buffer stock model, namely that any revision in permanent income leads to a proportionate revision in target wealth. We use panel data on the amount of wealth held for precautionary purposes available in the 2002-2016 SHIW. Using an instrumental variable...

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Income Shocks and Housing Spillovers : Evidence from the World War I Veterans' Bonus

Quincy, Sarah - 2022

This paper documents how a one-time income shock can persistently alter the household wealth distribution through housing market channels. In 1936, the United States government unexpectedly gave World War I veterans a large income transfer. This payment, equivalent to 1936 per capita income,...

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Intrahousehold Inequality and the Joint Taxation of Household Earnings

Lobel, Felipe; Alves, Cassiano; Costa, Carlos E. da; … - 2022

We derive optimal labor income tax schedules for married agents, taking the distinction between interpersonal and interhousehold inequality seriously. Each household consists of two workers with different productivity levels and unequal access to the family’s economic resources. We handle the...

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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022

Transfers from parents—either in the form of gifts or inheritances—have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows available to an individual (defined as the...

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