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Measuring living standards with income and consumption: Evidence from the UK

Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - 2012

one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

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Uniform sharing

Wolf, Alex - 2019

Collective models have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective models are built for fixed sets of household members and accommodate diversity in household structures with difficulty. Individual-level data on food consumption from Bangladesh...

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Measuring living standards with income and consumption: evidence from the UK

Brewer, Mike; O'Dea, Cormac - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2012

one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152737

Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in …

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Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

Borusyak, Kirill; Jaravel, Xavier - 2022

importance of 'trade-induced horizontal inequality,' i.e. inequality brought about by trade shocks that occurs among workers with … the same level of earnings prior to the shock. While this type of inequality does not affect the income distribution, it … horizontal inequality and changes in the income distribution induced by trade in a data-driven way, we develop a characterization …

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The role of privately held firms in income inequality

Paukkeri, Tuuli; Ravaska, Terhi; Riihelä, Marja - 2023

typically invisible in income data, distorting our understanding of the extent of income inequality. A recent strand of research … has illustrated the importance of accounting for retained earnings for measuring inequality. In this paper, we study the … role of privately held firms in income inequality in Finland, including the role of retained earnings, but also taking a …

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Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data

Blundell, Richard; Low, Hamish; Preston, Ian - 2008

growth. We use this approach to investigate the growth in income inequality in the UK in the 1980s. …

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The role of attitudes and behaviours in explaining socio-economic differences in attainment at age 16

Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, Claire; Goodman, Alissa - 2010

It is well known that children growing up in poor families leave school with considerably lower qualifications than children from better off backgrounds. Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio-economic gap in attainment at age 16 can be accounted for...

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Consumption inequality and partial insurance

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2004

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …

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Income risk and consumption inequality: A simulation study

Blundell, Richard W.; Low, Hamish; Preston, Ian - 2004

This paper assesses the accuracy of decomposing income risk into permanent and transitory components using income and consumption data. We develop a specific approximation to the optimal consumption growth rule and use Monte Carlo evidence to show that this approximation can provide a robust...

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