In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labour supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …

Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality … shocks. The response of consumption to permanent and transitory income shocks becomes weaker later in the sample, consistent …

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the … degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … found to play an important role in insuring permanent shocks. Adding durable expenditures to the consumption measure …

direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. The health cost increases …

This paper examines trends in household consumption and saving behaviour in each of the last three recessions in the UK …

In this paper, we present data on recent trends in private consumption and in possible determinants of private … consumption (such as GDP, household incomes, household saving rates, household wealth, and employment conditions) in the Group of … consumption growth rates but also in the determinants of private consumption growth during the 2002-07 period. With respect to …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …