Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …

transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX … repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable life … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment … contracts offer severance compensation and sometimes give notice before dismissal. Severance compensation smoothes consumption … delay consumption falls to give incentives to the worker to search for another job. No dismissal delays are optimal if …

Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia's 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and … assess the deadweight loss from personal income tax in the presence of tax evasion based on the consumption response to tax …

Consumption expenditure declines sharply at the time of retirement for many households, but the majority maintain a … smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time of retirement can account for this pattern … consumption expenditure at retirement generated by the model is zero, while the mean is negative, matching the HRS data. However …

countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce …

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other consumption categories such as alcohol and tobacco, medical, and … ?consumption expenditure patterns. We find some differences in consumption patterns which relate to differences in gender of …

in a model with non-durable and durable consumption. The stock of the durable is exposed to risk against which households …-durable consumption. Introducing labor income risk into the model does not necessarily increase the importance of market insurance if the …

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …