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microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …
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microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148703
This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditure budgetshares distributions (HBSDs) —defined as the share of household total expenditurespent for purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of Italianhouseholds in the period 1989-2004....
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is a non-standard and potentially questionable practice given that it alters the structure of income distribution. This … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …
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holds risky assets. The ownership rates of all asset categories generally increase with wealth (and income). The …
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public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two … decades and show how they change with households’ disposable needs-adjusted income. We find a substantial increase in the … ratios over the 1990s. In the decade that followed, they remained relatively constant. Moreover we find that rent-income …
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This paper builds on the existing literature about the distribution of financial resources within the household between couple members. Using data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) we examine the ownership of, and amounts held in savings, investments and debts by couple members, and...
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Income inequality and poverty are closely related. This study decomposed income inequality in Nigeria using the Gini …-decomposition, regression-based and Shapley approaches. Results show that in 2004, income inequality is higher in rural areas than in urban … areas. The study also noted that employment income increases inequality while agricultural income decreases inequality …
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is a non-standard and potentially questionable practice given that it alters the structure of income distribution. This …
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wealth (and income). The significance of inheritances for home ownership and holding of other real estate is remarkable. We …
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