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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269667
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289981
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The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade
Boeri, Tito; Brandolini, Andrea - 2005
In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262639
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Income taxation of US households: Basic facts
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278342
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Time to eat: household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267333
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Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267644
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Warrant economics, call-put policy options and the fallacies of economic theory
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - 2011
In this paper we aim to trace the roots of the ongoing economic mayhem and to unmask the chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282231
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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008
. Unhealthy eating intergenerational transmission appears to be more intense amongst lower household income individuals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268566
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six … nature of RLMS to identify the causal effect of changes in household resources on nutritional status. In contrast to the … large decline in expenditure in 1998, nutritional status appears to be very resilient to variation in household resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261851
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
This paper explores secular changes in women?s pay relative to men?s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261859