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Urban consumption inequality in China, 1995-2013
Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina - 2017
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 …
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Labor income dynamics and the insurance from taxes, transfers, and the family
Blundell, Richard W.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238207
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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy : another look at the economics of marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901742
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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters : levels and trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
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Intergenerational earnings persistence and economic inequality in the long-run : evidence from French cohorts, 1931-1975
Lefranc, Arnaud - 2018
This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French labor market and educational system, in particular an important compression of earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816418
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Marital patterns and income inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud; Weber, Simon - 2018
We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage market, i.e. who remains single and who marries whom....
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Keeping up with the Jansens : causal peer effects on household spending, beliefs and happiness
Rooij, Maarten van; Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2024
How strong are peer effects on the beliefs and spending decisions of individuals? We use a randomized control study in which treated households are told about either average income or debt of individuals like them to assess how peer effects influence their beliefs and spending. The information...
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Consumption response to Seoul's COVID-19 shopping coupons: evidence from consumer data
Woo, Seokjin; Aum, Sangmin; Kim, Dohyung; Moon, Heyjin; … - 2021
This study measures the extent to which Seoul's COVID-19 shopping coupon program affects individuals' consumption …. Unlike other COVID-19-related transfer programs, the Seoul Metropolitan government provides consumption coupons depending on …-in-differences method. We find that the program increased consumption by 18% while it was ongoing and by 6% afterward. We find substantial …
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