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lack of reliable panel data on household expenditures. One possibility is to use surveys that follow the same households … alternative approach is to use the accounting identity that total household spending is equal to income plus capital gains minus … accounting identity to construct a population panel data with information on household expenditure. To derive such measures of …
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This paper considers how monetary policy produces heterogeneous effects on euro area households, depending on the composition of their income and on the components of their wealth. We first review the existing evidence on how monetary policy affects income and wealth inequality. We then...
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We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register-linked Swedish survey, we find that informing individuals about the large aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link...
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During the last decade, several EU countries have tried to tackle unemployment and low activity rates through extensive tax cuts. In an effort to encourage the taking up of work - especially amongst the less productive workers - policymakers have shown increasing interest in targeted tax and...
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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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system (QUAIDS) model controlling also for total expenditure on food, region of residence, household size, age of head of … household, whether women are working, number of time in which the household buys ready food, household type and income quartiles …
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Using a panel of household level tax data, we estimate the degree to which dependents are "reassigned" between tax … combined tax liabilities on average, suggesting some household level coordination. Additionally, when EITC benefits expanded in … subgroup reassigning towards three child tax units actually increased total household tax liabilities, suggesting that some …
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Average real UK household income has almost doubled over the past forty years. With four decades of micro-data on … household incomes, and relatively simple decomposition methods, we document the contribution to this growth in the mean net … household income of working-age households from different income sources, and break down further changes in employment income by …
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household income. Finland and the US are in-between. Counterfactual predictions suggest that although household characteristics …
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