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Mâori Incomes:Investigating Differences Between Iwi
Sin, Isabelle; Maré, David C - EconWPA - 2005
This paper investigates several factors that may be important for improving Mâori outcomes, and the extent to which their importance varies by iwi. Specifically, it examines the extent to which controlling for differences in characteristics of the European population and the populations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125712
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Understanding Changes in Mâori Incomes and Income Inequality 1997-2003
Dixon, Sylvia; Maré, David C - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reports findings from a study of changes in Mâori income levels and income dispersion between 1997 and 2003. Data from Statistics New Zealand’s Income Survey are used to describe and evaluate the main changes in the Mâori income distribution in this period, which was marked by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408308
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Changes in the Mâori Income Distribution: Evidence from the Population Census
Dixon, Sylvia; Maré, David C. - EconWPA - 2005
This paper uses census data to identify the main changes in the individual-level income distribution of working-aged Mâori between 1991 and 2001, and to analyse the effects of changes in the distribution of socio-demographic attributes and labour market activity patterns on the Mâori income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556817
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Whose Inflation? A Characterization of the CPI Plutocratic Gap
Ley, Eduardo - EconWPA - 2001
average of household price indexes, where the weight of each household is determined by its total expenditures. In this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125974
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Debt-Constraints or Incomplete Markets? A Decomposition of the Wealth and Consumption Inequality in the U.S.
Cordoba, Juan-Carlos - EconWPA - 2004
The large wealth and consumption inequality in the U.S. is usually attributed to two market frictions: debt constraints and incomplete markets. Recent literature has argued that debt constraints are the critical friction while market incompleteness plays only a secondary role. We evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412632
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Savings, Intergenerational Transfers, and the Distribution of Wealth
Ocampo, Ignacio Ponce; Yuki, Kazuhiro - EconWPA - 2005
This paper investigates the quantitative importance of different savings motives on the distributions of wealth and consumption and aggregate capital accumulation by solving an overlapping generations model with intragenerational heterogeneity. Agents differ in age, ability, earnings shocks, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561081
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The Impact of Inflation on Income Tax and Social Insurance Contributions in Europe
Immervoll, Herwig - EconWPA - 2003
Inflation can alter the characteristics of tax- and contribution systems in numerous ways. This paper demonstrates how … inflation alters the distributive properties of nominally defined tax systems and looks at the impact of the tax revenues and … comparisons of the distributive consequences of the inflation induced erosion of tax- band limits, thresholds, deductions, tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560980
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples
Eissa, Nada; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - EconWPA - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076598
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SAVINGS MOBILIZATION ROLE OF NIGERIAN COMMERCIAL BANKS:AN ANALYTICAL POLICY STUDY
NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION HAS BEEN EMPHASISED AS THE MAJOR FACTOR GOVERING THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT. THIS STUDY THEREFORE AIMS EXPLORING IN THE LIGHT OF PAST TRENDS, THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS AS FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN MOBILIZING DOMESTIC SAVINGS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTRAINTS IN...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076971
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Effects of changes in flows of funds between Government and households.A SAM approach to Portugal.
Santos, Susana - EconWPA - 2005
Through the use of aggregate Social Accounting Matrices for Portugal, the flows of funds from three government subsectors to households will be studied, as well as the flows from the latter to the former. From the SAM modelling, both a static and a comparative static analysis will be made, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125657