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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …
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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2015
variables over the period 1970 to 2013. For the baseline simulation, the welfare gain for capital owners is 3.7% of per …-period consumption while workers suffer a welfare loss of 1.4%. Using counterfactual simulations, we find that both groups could have …
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Intergenerational mobility in the land of inequality
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
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Income or leisure? : on the hidden benefits of (un-)employment
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017
We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...
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Intra-household work timing : the effect on joint activities and the demand for child care
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...
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Parents under stress : evaluating emergency childcare policies during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Germany
Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah S. - 2021
What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative parenting behavior? To answer these questions, this study...
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Hours inequality
Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022
, hours inequality is an important force, and that it has increased over the period under analysis. The elasticity of hours …The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper … inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation between the two. We use data for the US, the UK, France, and Germany over …
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
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The biological standard of living in the two Germanies
Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001
height were greater in the East amongfemales, and less among males than in the West. Spatial inequality wasgreater in the … difficultiesexperienced by the East-German population after 1961 is evident in theincrease in social inequality of physical stature thereafter …
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Intratemporal nonseparability between housing and nondurable consumption : evidence from reinvestment in housing stock
Khorunzhina, Natalia - 2019
Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by intratemporal nonseparability in households’...
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