economic transition in 1989–90. The results, based on micro data from the 1985–92 Household Budget Surveys, indicate that … the relative well-being of different socio-economic groups was altered. Absolute poverty levels increased during the …

This paper examines developments in Albania’s income distribution and poverty during the transition to a market … consumption data, however, a large decline in urban real incomes is implausible. Poverty in both the urban and the rural …

This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households …

High household wealth is often cited as a key strength of the Italian economy. Both in absolute terms and relative to … income, the Italian household sector is wealthier than most euro area peers. A sizable fraction of this wealth is held by the … rich and upper middle classes. This paper documents the changes in the Italian household sector's financial wealth over the …

China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … increase in income uncertainty. Interestingly, the permanent variance of household income remains stable while it is the … and pension reforms can account for over half of the increase in the urban household savings rate in China since the mid …

and hours worked using the nationally representative household surveys PNAD-Continua and PNAD COVID. Sectors most … decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre …