Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,122
Cover Image
On the Income Dependence of Equivalence Scales
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2004
Household consumption exhibits economies of scale as the number of household members increases. We collect survey data from two countries, Germany and France, in order to obtain direct subjective estimates of household consumption economies of scale, and, in particular, to examine an additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077960
Cover Image
On the Income Dependence of Equivalence Scales
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2005
Household consumption exhibits economies of scale as the number of household members increases. We collect survey data from two countries, Germany and France, in order to obtain direct subjective estimates of household consumption economies of scale, and, in particular, to examine an additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068073
Cover Image
Urbanization, inequality, and poverty in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yuan - 2016
migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522047
Cover Image
What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?
Eika, Lasse; Mogstad, Magne; Vestad, Ola Lotherington - 2020
alternative approach is to use the accounting identity that total household spending is equal to income plus capital gains minus … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this … second is a study of the transmission of income shocks to household consumption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172449
Cover Image
Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling : imputing employment income in Tanzania and Zambia
McLennan, David; Noble, Michael; Wright, Gemma Clare; … - 2021
The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent … of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608576
Cover Image
Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations Among University Students
Delaney, Liam - 2011
income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126917
Cover Image
Reference income effects in the determination of equivalence scales using income satisfaction data
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Kuhställer, Carina - 2016
We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from … reference effects in the determination of income satisfaction. We show that this adjustment helps to overcome a bias causing an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547742
Cover Image
Sheltered income : estimating income under-reporting in Canada, 1998 and 2004
Dunbar, Geoffrey R.; Fu, Chunling - 2015
extent of income under-reporting in Canada in 1998 and 2004. We estimate that the proportion of households under …-reporting income is roughly 35 to 50 per cent in both years. Our estimates also suggest that the amount of under-reported income rose … evidence that income underreporting is pervasive and is not confined to households that report self-employment income in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285462
Cover Image
Income distribution in Germany : real income on the rise since 1991 but more people with low incomes
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 21, pp. 181-190
Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847472
Cover Image
Reference Income Effects in the Determination of Equivalence Scales Using Income Satisfaction Data
Borah, Melanie - 2016
We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from … reference effects in the determination of income satisfaction. We show that this adjustment helps to overcome a bias causing an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979128