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Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2013

Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate...

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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2014

This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

Bjorklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jantti, Markus; … - 2021

The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...

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Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S

Coibion, Olivier - 2012

We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....

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Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases

Coibion, Olivier - 2017

We document a decline in the frequency of shopping trips in the U.S. since 1980 and consider its implications for the measurement of consumption inequality. A decline in shopping frequency as households stock up on storable goods (i.e. inventory behavior) will lead to a rise in expenditure...

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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2004

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on household wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …

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Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply

Blundell, Richard W. - 2012

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings...

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Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India : 2004-2012

Khanna, Shantanu - 2016

We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the lower end. Consequently, earnings inequality declined. Recentered Influence Function decompositions...

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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021

We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...

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Economic Choices and Status : Measuring Preferences for Income Rank

Mujcic, Redzo - 2010

In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income rank matters independently of absolute income, with greater weight given to rank by males,...

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