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Check in the mail or more in the paycheck

Sahm, Claudia R.; Shapiro, Matthew D.; Slemrod, Joel - 2011

Recent fiscal policies have aimed to stimulate household spending. In 2008, most households received one-time economic stimulus payments. In 2009, most working households received the Making Work Pay tax credit in the form of reduced withholding; other households, mainly retirees, received...

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Inter-industry wage differentials: how much does rent sharing matter?

Caju, by Philip Du; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2009

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...

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Inheritances and the distribution of wealth or whatever happened to the great inheritance boom?

Wolff, Edward N.; Gittleman, Maury - 2011

received a wealth transfer and these accounted for 23 percent of their net worth. Over the lifetime, about 30 percent of … households could expect to receive a wealth transfer and these would account for close to 40 percent of their net worth near time … reporting a wealth transfer fell by 2.5 percentage points. The average value of inheritances received among all households did …

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Wealth mobility and dynamics over entire individual working life cycles

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011

We study taxable wealth in unique Swedish administrative data, annually following a large sample of households over a … period of almost 40 years. The main data limitation is non-observability of wealth for those below the tax exemption level …. This implies that much of the focus of the paper is on the rich, since we are confined to those whose wealth becomes …

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The immigrant/native wealth gap in Germany, Italy and Luxembourg

Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Sierminska, Eva - 2011

This paper analyses the existence of an immigrant/native wealth gap by using household survey data for Luxembourg …, Germany and Italy. The results show that, in all three countries, a sizeable wealth gap exists between natives and immigrants …. Towards the upper tail of the wealth distribution the gap narrows to a small extent. This gap persists even after controlling …

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Bank fees behaviour study : Final report

TNS - 2012

The markets for bank accounts across the EU differ considerably among Member States, i.e. they are still fragmented along national lines and there is limited integration across different Member States. But even within national markets, there is evidence of major obstacles to consumer choice and...

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US, Japan and the euro area

McAdam, Peter - 2003

There has been much discussion of the differences in macroeconomic performance and prospects between the US, Japan and the euro area. Using Markov-switching techniques, in this paper we identify and compare specifically their major business-cycle features and examine the case for a common...

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Comparing economic dynamics in the EU and CEE accession countries

Süppel, Ralph - 2003

This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the central- and eastern European accession countries. Two important results emerge from the analysis. First, accession countries have posted higher average growth and wider output...

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Bond market inflation expectations and longer-term trends in broad monetary growth and inflation in industrial countries, 1880 - 2001

Dewald, William G. - 2003

u0093Bond Market Inflation Expectation and Longer-term Trends in Broad Monetary Growth and Inflation in Industrial Countries, 1880-2001u0094 by William G. Dewald, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Ohio State University and Former Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Annual...

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an international comparison

Afonso, António; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2003

We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub-indicators, for 23 industrialised countries. The first four sub-indicators are u0093opportunityu0094 indicators that take into account administrative, education and health outcomes...

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