. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

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 …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … effects by producing counterfactual ("no reform") scenarios using tax-benefit microsimulation and representative household …

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration … smokers was 0.039 (men 0.033; women 0.038). The majority of the inequality could be explained by educational attainment, age …

The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality …., 2017), the overall change in income inequality is decomposed into parts attributable to the change in market income … inequality, changes in discretionary tax-benefit policy and automatic stabilisation effects. We implement this approach using the …

and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net …

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 … captured by static inequality indices. …

We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the … 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … remote work during the pandemic. We then propose methods to impute transportation cost equivalents for household expenditure … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion …

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income …