In this paper, we estimate consumption in the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey for … a subset of countries that account for around 85% of the aggregate final consumption expenditure of households in the … questions on consumption asked to households participating in the survey and information on consumption collected in the …

on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents … fixed effects vector decomposition method, we estimate the gross total income difference between East and West Germans … taking unobserved heterogeneity into account. Our analysis demonstrates that the negative income gap has decreased from 33 …

62,000 households. The report presents results on household assets and liabilities, income, and indicators of consumption …This report summarises key stylised facts from the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption …

recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data … from the Survey of Household Finances over the period 2002 to 2014 to examine the distributions of income and wealth in … both income and wealth following the sharp decline in house prices that occurred since 2008, with house price fluctuations …

translated into decisive improvements in household disposable incomes while significant redistribution has ensured low income …

This paper provides an assessment of how households’ income has fared compared with GDP. While the prime focus is on … incomes around the median, attention is paid also to the bottom of the income distribution. Thus, one contribution of the … differences in income distributions across countries and over time. For example, it assesses the extent to which stability in …