Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 89
Cover Image
Income convergence in South Africa: Fact or measurement error?
Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Zoch, Asmus - 2014
This paper asks whether income mobility in South Africa over the last decade has indeed been as impressive as currently … as 77% for the national NIDS panel and 39% for the provincial KIDS panel. Overall, income mobility appears much smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392365
Cover Image
The relationship between firm mobility and tax level: Empirical evidence of fiscal competition between local governments
Carlsen, Fredrik; Langset, Bjørg; Rattsø, Jørn - 2005
The mobility of the tax base may influence fiscal outcomes. The many theoretical contributions about the role of … mobility are not matched by empirical evidence. Existing studies address strategic interaction between governments, but have … little to say about mobility. We introduce a new measure of mobility conditions based on the geographic profit variability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968194
Cover Image
Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility … as an equalizer of permanent income. The proposed representation is called a mobility curve and forms the basis for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968539
Cover Image
Life after default: Credit hardship and its effects
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Naguib, Costanza - 2022
We analyze the impact of credit default on individual trajectories. Using a proprietary dataset for the years 2004-2020, we find that after default individuals relocate to cheaper areas. Importantly, default has long-lasting negative effects on income, credit score, total credit limit, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461492
Cover Image
The paradox of the unhappy, growing city: Reconciling evidence
Carlsen, Fredrik; Leknes, Stefan - 2019
satisfied with life in Norway's biggest city, Oslo, and exhibits positive net in-migration to the city. A majority of less … mobile groups are dissatisfied and tend to move out of Oslo, but these flows are too small to determine the overall migration … assumption of perfect mobility, is appropriate only for the most mobile segments of the population. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145543
Cover Image
Informing Climate Adaptation: A Review of the Economic Costs of Natural Disasters, Their Determinants, and Risk Reduction Options
Kousky, Carolyn - 2012
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impacts of natural disasters to inform both climate adaptation policy and the estimation of potential climate damages. It covers papers that estimate the short- and long-run economic impacts of weather-related extreme events as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555673
Cover Image
How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?
Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016
Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441664
Cover Image
Distribution of Preferences and Measurement Errors in a Disaggregated Expenditure System+
Aasness, Jørgen; Biørn, Erik; Skjerpen, Terje - 1995
A complete system of consumer expenditure functions with 28 commodity groups is modelled and estimated by means of Norwegian household panel data. Measurement errors are carefully modelled. Total consumption expenditure is modelled as a latent variable, purchase expenditures on different goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967921
Cover Image
Estimation of Price Elasticities from Norwegian Household Survey Data
Brubakk, Leif - 1997
In this paper, a subsystem of demand equations is estimated using data from the Norwegian survey of household expenditures 1989-1991. One objective has been to obtain substantial knowledge of Norwegian household demand for a set of food groups, with emphasis on price responses, using two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967974
Cover Image
Mortality, fertility and old age care in a two-sex growth model
Andreassen, Leif - 2004
The paper discusses the importance of decreasing mortality in explaining demographic change over the last century. A two-sex overlapping generations model is used where care both for children and the elderly is modeled. Assuming that the main costs of care are tied to time use (and thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968148