This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …

With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the impact of individual and household characteristics in explaining … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …

will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel …

We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare … function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household …

This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities …

several tax reforms that were implemented in Germany between 2001 and 2008. Our baseline estimates indicate an overall ETI of …

uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer … the budget of the individual household. This includes taxes on income and consumption, social security contributions …

In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the … persistence rates and the absolute level of structural state dependence are higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany. I …