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We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in their share of aggregate income. In the U.S., since top income shares began to rise rapidly in the early 1980s, incomes of those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution...
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individual-pre-tax and household-post-tax earnings and across administrative (Social Security Administration) and survey (Panel … Study of Income Dynamics) data. We estimate two alternative processes for household after-tax earnings and study their …
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We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …
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expansion of household debt, the boom in housing, and declining flows of household savings into deposit institutions. These data …
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This paper assesses the impacts across US household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs. We consider both …
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To what extent does household inequality affect the response of aggregate consumption to aggregate real shocks? We … first review two state-of-the-art papers with household heterogeneity and aggregate uncertainty. They teach us that having a …
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quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative … mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. This is because the …
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We revisit the causes, welfare consequences, and policy implications of the dispersion in households' labor market outcomes using a model with uninsurable risk, incomplete asset markets, and home production. Accounting for home production amplifies welfare-based differences across households...
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Indonesian economic crisis on household welfare there. Using only pre-crisis household information, we estimate the compensating …-parametric methods. We find that virtually every household was severely impacted, although it was the urban poor that fared the worst … the geographic location of the household mattered even within urban or rural areas and household income categories …
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income and time prices affect time and goods input 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 …
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