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The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure

Lachowska, Marta - 2015

In order to study whether public pension systems displace private saving, we use the quasi-experimental variation in pension wealth created by Poland's 1999 pension reform. Using the 1997–2003 Polish Household Budget Surveys, we begin by estimating "difference-in-differences" regressions,...

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Households Debt Restructuring : The Re-Default Effect of a Debt Suspension

Fraisse, Henri - 2017

). The HDC can order an immediate repayment or grant a debt suspension. Exploiting the random assignment of bankruptcy … filings to managers, we show that a debt suspension has a very significant and negative effect on the likelihood to re … the nature of their indebtedness. Our results imply that rather than focusing on a specific debt profile, above all a …

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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys : Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 Until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey o...

Merz, Joachim - 2010

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...

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Beyond Qualifications : Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia

Acosta, Pablo A. - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...

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Reevaluating Distributional Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Poland : New Results from Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Brzeziński, Michał - 2019

We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends...

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The Brazilian Wage Curve : New Evidence from the National Household Survey

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014

This paper reconsiders the Brazilian wage curve using individual data from the National Household Survey at 27 Federative Units over the period 2002 - 2009. We find evidence in favor of the Brazilian wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of -0.08 when the lagged unemployment rate is used as...

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Latin American Household Budget Surveys 1913-1970 and What They Tell Us About Economic Inequality Among Households

Gazeley, Ian - 2018

The article reports an analysis of the findings of a search for household budget surveys for Latin America for the period from the earliest surveys to the late 1960s. Over one hundred studies were located. References to these surveys are available online at University of Sussex, The Global...

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The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965

Gazeley, Ian - 2018

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 surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...

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What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2016

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...

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