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The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
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income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …
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increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these … distribution ; demography ; household size ; decomposition ; Germany …
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The Brazilian government raises taxes amounting to 35% of GDP and spends more than two thirds of this on social programmes. These shares are in pair with the OECD averages and well in excess of Latin America averages. However, while tax-benefit systems in most OECD countries reduce income...
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. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …
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We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
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We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...
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In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to household impoverishmentʺ. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …
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relationship linking behaviors and health outcomes across groups. The empirical application is conducted using the UK Household …
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determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance … (SD) tests are performed by year, by household heads' characteristics (age, education, gender, health, marital status and … occupation) and by household characteristics (household type, household size, degree of urbanization). Mean least squares …
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