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Mind the gap : disparities in assessments of living standards using national accounts and household surveys
Beer Prydz, Espen; Jolliffe, Dean; Serajuddin, Umar - 2021
measures of consumption and income from household surveys. Using a new compilation of more than 2,000 household surveys matched … established. Means of household consumption estimated from surveys are, on average, 20 percentlower than corresponding means from …
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The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Fraikin, Anne-Lore - 2022
automatically granted a more generous old-age pension benefits replacement rate, called the household replacement rate. Following a … adequacy measures. Specifically, we test whether the household replacement rate entails a work (dis)incentive mechanism … promoting (harming) pension sustainability and furthermore, we analyse the role of the household replacement rate in old …
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Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? : evidence from rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019 - Current version: April 2019
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...
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Social security expansion and neighborhood cohesion : evidence from community-living older adults in China
Bradley, Elizabeth H.; Chen, Xi; Tang, Gaojie - 2020
Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security expansion on neighborhood cohesion of elders using China’s New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), one of...
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How do women allocate their available time in Europe? : differences with men
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2021
, and child care is offered, and explanations based on education, earnings, and household structure are presented, using …
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How does intrahousehold bargaining power impact labor supply? : European cross-country evidence (2004-2019)
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
This paper analyzes how intrahousehold bargaining power impacts labor supply, for seventeen European countries. To that end, we estimate a collective model using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions for the period 2004-2019, and we study the validity of several potential...
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Residential satisfaction for a continuum of households : evidence from European countries
Borgoni, Riccardo; Michelangeli, Alessandra; Pirola, … - 2018
Residential satisfaction depends on housing and neighborhood conditions in addition to housing cost affordability. To determine the relative importance of these factors, their average effect is usually estimated using sample data, eventually split in sub-samples in order to represent social...
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Household wealth and body mass index : towards a healthy ageing?
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023
Studying the impact of exogenous wealth shocks on health-related outcomes can help policymakers in the design and evaluation of social programs that provide income to certain groups. This paper analyzes the impact of unexpected inheritances on Body Mass Index, using data from the Survey of...
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International effects of euro area versus US policy uncertainty : a FAVAR approach
Belke, Ansgar; Osowski, Thomas - 2017
Building on the growing evidence on the importance of large data sets for empirical macroeconomic modeling, we estimate a large-scale FAVAR model for 18 OECD member countries. We quantify the global effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks and check whether the signs, the magnitude, and the...
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Business cycle synchronization in the EMU : core vs. periphery
Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens; Gros, Daniel - 2017
This paper examines business cycle synchronization in the European Monetary Union with a special focus on the core-periphery pattern in the aftermath of the crisis. Using a quarterly index for business cycle synchronization by Cerqueira (2013), our panel data estimates suggest that it is...
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