We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The … approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the business cycle. It requires only repeated cross …-section data and can allow for mixtures of persistent and transitory components in the dynamic process for income. Evidence from a …

We develop an estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict identifying …-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do not is likely to fail in countries where employees are often paid under the … table or engage in corrupt activities. Assuming that evading individuals have a higher consumption-income gap than non …

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the quantiles, if the level of durable goods consumption … income among the public sector workers. The 2004-05 survey of income and consumption by workers in both private and public …

We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more … aggregate data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a synthetic cohort dataset with details of income, expenditure, socio … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …

capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the … impact of migration on long-term income growth and distribution, and the net benefits to natives in both destination and …

public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …