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This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on … aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal …
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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 …
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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
household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in … inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …
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This paper analyses the association between household characteristics' in particular size and location, and for the … household head age, sector of employment (and the tariff applicable to that sector) and education - and household income using … data from the Tanzania Household Budget Survey for the years 1991/92, 2000/01 and 2007. The static analysis of the …
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combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
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(Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …
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trafficking. Based on a household survey on human trafficking from Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, the analysis …
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Household income is difficult to measure, since it requires collecting information about all potential income sources … for each member of a household. We assess the effects of two types of edit check questions on measurement error and survey … suggest that traditional interviewing methods under-estimate household income in the lower tail of the income distribution …
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This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected disturbances after childbirth.
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