This study examines the scope for redistributive government policies based on progressive income taxation and direct income transfers. We concentrate on the case of Hungary. We first survey recent developments in the economic circumstances of the household sector and changes in the Hungarian...

This note describes the matching procedure used to construct panel data sets from the 1987, 1989 and 1991 Hungarian Household Budget servey samples.

The authors compare the incidence of and characteristics associated with child poverty in the UK and Hungary in 1993. Using a model families approach, the differences between systems of state support for families with and without children are examined, and conclusions drawn about their...

The paper examines the use of taxation as a method of improving the redistributional impact of social benefits, focusing on the case of the universal family allowance programme in Hungary.

We present results for the so-called “bar-attendance” model of market behavior: p adaptive agents, each possessing n prediction rules chosen randomly from a pool, attempt to attend a bar whose cut-off is s. The global attendance time series has a mean near, but not equal to, s. The variance,...

We provide new evidence about what happens to peoples incomes when their or their parents marital union dissolves, using longitudinal data from waves 1-4 of the British Household Panel Survey. Marital splits are associated with substantial declines in real income for separating wives and...

This paper provides new evidence about income mobility and poverty dynamics in 1990s Britain using data from the first four waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). After describing our data and definitions used (Section 2), we document the degree and pattern of income mobility...

This paper analyses low income dynamics in Britain using the first four waves of the British Household Panel Survey. There is much low income turnover: although there is a small group of people who are persistently poor, more striking is the relatively large number of low income escapers and...

Using the first four waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-94) and a variety of methods, the authors show that there is much mobility in household net income from one year to the next in Britain. However, most income changes from one year to the next are not very large and, when...