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Inequality in emissions : evidence from Indonesian households
Irfany, Mohammad Iqbal - 2015
Although the literature on emission inequality is abundant, this study will differentiate itself by focusing on … measures on emission inequality based on household characteristics as well as decompose it into sources of emission. Employing … emission inequality tends to decline until the middle quintiles but then further increases in expenditure level and worsens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284927
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Inflation variability across Australian households : implications for inequality and indexation policy
Van Kints, Marcel; Breunig, Robert - 2020
We examine the consumer price inflation experiences of Australian households across the income distribution using Australian Bureau of Statistics data and prices and methodology from the national consumer price index. Across the period 2011 – 2018, we find that the lowest income households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240171
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Household consumption, household indebtedness, and inequality in Turkey : a microeconometric analysis
Albayrak, Özlem - 2020
This paper examines whether relative income and income inequality within reference groups affect household consumption … consumption levels in Turkey are affected by the household's relative position and inequality in the reference group between 2005 … relative income indicator after controlling for absolute income, and positively related to the income inequality of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210948
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Mapping trade to household budget survey : a conversion framework for assessing the distributional impact of trade policies
Luu, Nhung; Woloszko, Nicolas; Causa, Orsetta; Arriola, … - 2020
Whether gains from trade are equally distributed within countries is the subject of a lively debate. This paper presents a novel framework to analyse the distributional effects of trade policy by linking the OECD’s CGE trade model, METRO, with consumption expenditure data from household budget...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432844
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Chapter 5. Who Bears the Cost of Recessions? The Role of House Prices and Household Debt
Mian, A.; Sufi, A. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 255-296). 2016
This chapter reviews empirical estimates of differential income and consumption growth across individuals during recessions. Most existing studies examine the variation in income and consumption growth across individuals by sorting on ex ante or contemporaneous income or consumption levels. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024289
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Inflation heterogeneity across households
Kiss, Regina; Strasser, Georg - 2024
This paper studies the nature, evolution, and sources of inflation heterogeneity across households in France and Germany. Inflation differences are large and persistent. The two main sources of inflation heterogeneity are spatial differences in the prices paid for the same product and...
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Inequality and mobility analysis by the Hungarian Rotation Panel, 1993-1998
Kapitány, Zsuzsa; Molnár, György - 2002
We investigate the trends of inequalities and mobility of income, expenditure and stock of durables between 1993 and 1998 in Hungary. In 1996-8 the stagnating level of inequalities is coupled with relatively low and decreasing mobility. The relationship between inequalities and mobility fastens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011546013
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Wealth Inequality and Private Savings : The Case of Germany
Dao, Mai - 2020
bywidening top income inequality, rising private savings and compressed consumption rates.Rising corporate profits in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828236
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The partition of production between households and markets
Colburn, Christopher Bingham; Zhou, Haiwen - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 1, pp. 21-35
The process of industrialization was accompanied by the switch from household production to firm production. The industrialization process was also a process of population growth, the appearance of general-purpose technologies, and the expansion of international trade. This paper studies the...
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The causes of Japan's 'lost decade': The role of household consumption
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2006
In this paper, I analyze the causes of the prolonged slowdown of the Japanese economy in the 1990s and find that the stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the stagnation of household consumption during the 1990s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332277