labor demand and the wage bargaining process. The analysis of the interaction of shock spillovers and benefit system focuses …

(output, consumption, and investment) and financial variables (equity and house prices, and interest rates). We find that the …

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal data from the Household …

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … household which experiences an exogenous shock of 10% of its total income changes both its food and total non … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households …

information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The … of a permanent income shock. Compared to existing empirical estimates for the same dataset, our findings suggest that …

terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases … non-migrants' consumption, but that this consumption gain cannot be explained by labor supply adjustments. Migration …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …