In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds … composition of households with low living standards if these are identified with consumption rather than income. …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds … composition of households with low living standards if these are identified with consumption rather than income. …

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and …

This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE … (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used …. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in Sweden) to 22 percent (in Switzerland). Logistic regression estimates show …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

This paper analyzes the distribution of real household incomes and consumption growth in Azerbaijan between 2004 and … incomes and real consumption. Our results also indicate that household incomes were much more strongly correlated with oil GDP … 2009. Decile-specific price deflators were used to calculate real incomes and consumption dynamics. The analysis, which was …

It is widely held that people who work have no difficulty in avoiding poverty and guaranteeing their family a decent … people, sometimes even working full time. But, previous studies have failed to consider the extent of poverty among the … active and inactive poor people. Estimating Gini indices and poverty gaps for those groups gives a different idea of the …

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 …