it is a key policy lever for income redistribution. This paper analyses how income distribution patterns changed in Spain … before and after the crisis using the personal income tax samples constructed by the Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies for … the period 2002 to 2011. We find that the top and bottom of the income distribution gained the most from the boom period …

measures that aim to avoid credit overexpansion are two policies that can improve the links of private debt with labour income …

Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels …) exhibit a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) in response to transitory income shocks, all else being equal. This … designed to account for the empirically observed negative correlation between income levels and income risk. This interaction …

Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s …

harmonised source available, an employer-based survey that covers the labour income of 10 million employees, excluding the self …

Despite an improvement in overall macroeconomic performance in Costa Rica, income inequality has risen and is currently … coefficient by income source, finding that the main contributor to inequality in Costa Rica is labour income. In the period 2010 … contribute to reduce inequality but their impact is limited given its small share in households’ total income. The analysis also …

reduction in homeownership across generations. Lower-income households find it harder to buy housing, and as a result accumulate …

Productivity growth in Lithuania has slowed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, holding back income …

- relative to older borrowers has played a major role in easing the debt repayment burden in the presence of large income shocks …. Notwithstanding historically low interest rates, we show that income shocks are the main factor contributing to mortgage repayment …