-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for attrition, the estimates - based on the European Community Household Panel … elderly decreases the probability of informal care-giving outside of the caregiver's household by 6 percentage points. Formal … care substitutes for informal care that is undertaken outside of the carer's own household, but does not substitute for …

We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a … be flexibly estimated across age groups. We find that the Scottish policy reduced the average household saving by about … £7,200. Moreover, the estimated effects are heterogeneous across age groups of the head of household: these effects are …

-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it … can be concluded that both taxes and transfers reduce inequality of opportunities, with social benefits typically playing … the key role. Furthermore, the equalizing impacts of the tax benefit system on inequality of opportunity differ …

-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality …

increases in any source of household income are associated with decreases in intra-household inequality, as measured by the …This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … framework based on a collective model of labor supply, where household decisions are Pareto efficient, and spouses negotiate a …

households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household ….For some we have the original household data, but in most cases we have tables by income group. One by-product of this work is … data. Our central finding is that inequality among working households does not follow the general downward trend in …

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