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We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household …-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the … twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline in monetary gains achieved by household-size economies over time. This …
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Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …
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This brief chapter introduces researchers to the possibilities for subnational research using the harmonized data sets made available via the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) (www.lisproject.org). We first offer a brief overview of the LIS and discuss specific challenges for subnational research...
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We present a markovian homogeneous model that mimics the evolution of household income. With three parameters only, the …
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of individual earnings, inequality of market household incomes, redistribution, and other factors influence the …
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The term 'family gap' refers to differences in income between households with children and households without children. Previous work has used the welfare state typology proposed by Esping-Andersen to explain differences in family gaps among western nations. This paper contributes to family gap...
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The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy and poverty reduction effectiveness of social assistance...
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women would have a substantial impact on reducing household income inequality, and a far larger impact than reducing the …
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The potential in survey data for the study of simultaneous changes in earnings disparities, inequality of household … personal and household earnings be analysed and what do we know about its development? Third, I present the changing links …
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standards based on household head's industry of employment. Data from the Luxembourg Income Study is used to assess the relative … level and movement of per capita disposable household income for households whose heads are employed in three industries …' income distributions over time, and that the patterns of movement within nation-specific household income distributions vary …
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