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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453984
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
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Deep and extreme child poverty in rich and poor nations : lessons from Atkinson for the fight against child poverty
Cai, Yixia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2019 - (Version: September 4th, 2019)
The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117874
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Work and poverty in post-industrial democracies
Alper, Kaitlin; Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2019
This article explores the determinants of relative market income poverty and poverty reduction in advanced industrial … democracies; that is, pre-tax and transfer relative poverty and reduction in poverty rates due to the tax and transfer system …. Using data from twenty countries between 1969 and 2014, we show that the primary determinants of market income poverty are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009243
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Determinants of household earnings inequality : the role of labour market trends and changing household structure
Chen, Wen-hao; Förster, Michael F.; Llena-Nozal, Ana - 2013
This article assesses various underlying driving factors for the evolution of household earnings inequality or 23 OECD countries from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. There are a number of factors at play. Some are related to labour market trends - increasing dispersion of individual wages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757059
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The atlas of inequality aversion : theory and empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study Database
Kot, Stanisław Maciej; Paradowski, Piotr R. - 2022
In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society’s aversion to inequality. However, the profession has not committed to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887975
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Do economic recessions "squeeze the middle-class"?
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2019 - This version: January 2019
We examine whether economic downturns reshape the distribution of population income giving rise to a "middle-class squeeze." We test this hypothesis using alternative definitions of middle-class, such as income-based measures from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and perceived measures from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961160
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Managers and productivity differences
Guner, Nezih; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Ventura, Gustavo - 2015 - Preliminary
We document that mean earnings of managers grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle for a group of high-income countries. Furthermore, we find that the growth of earnings for managers (relative to non managers) is positively correlated with output per worker across these countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010514445
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Heterogeneity in macroeconomics : the compositional inequality perspective
Ranaldi, Marco; Palagi, Elisa - 2022
This work presents a framework to jointly study individuals' heterogeneity in terms of their capital and labor endowments (endowment heterogeneity) and of their saving and consumption behaviors (behavioral heterogeneity), from an empirical perspective. By adopting a newly developed synthetic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455221
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Household's expenditure in health and education : effects on poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle income countries : India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation a...
Ait Mansour, Hicham - 2016
There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539798