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We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by Household-Size Economies, due to the within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multi-member households. In most of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline...
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The paper examines the development of incomes in Germany at different welfare levels, together with current trends in … information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …
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This paper aims to present an assessment of changes in inequality and well-being differences across the Spanish regions … Continuous Survey 2000, we analyze inequality differences and trends, the changes in the structure of inequality and the … convergence process. We also use abbreviated social welfare functions in order to capture regional differences and their changes …
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consequences on households welfare caused by these tax reforms. The proposed model solves the crucial problem of price data …
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for a variety of welfare calculations. …
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This paper proposes a methodological framework for examining the distributional effects of alternative agricultural policies in less developed economies. The framework combines disaggregated household models with an explicit modelling of the linkages between product and factor markets.
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household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …
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household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …
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extent skill-compensating investments are important as ex-ante income inequality reduction mechanisms in the private …
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Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … find this to be true, but not for the reason predicted by theory. Virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when …
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