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Income and views on minimum living standards
Johnston, David; Menon, Nidhiya - 2021
inequality amplifies the negative income gradient, and that the rich are no more empathetic towards children than they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604403
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Intra-household income inequality and preferences for redistribution
Haußen, Tina - 2018
We empirically analyze the relationship between income inequality and individual preferences for public redistribution …, focusing on intra-household income inequality between spouses. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find that … both one's own earned income and earned intra-household income inequality are significantly negatively related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809361
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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017
We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736612
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231585
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232795
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Households' income and the cushioning effect of fiscal policy measures during the Great Lockdown
Almeida, Vanda; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Christl, Michael; … - 2020
interventions are therefore seen as instrumental in cushioning against the impact of the crisis on inequality and poverty. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263176
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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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Charitable giving and income : households with high income donate less than poorer households relative to their disposable income
Schulz-Sandhof, Karsten; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 45/46, pp. 283-292
For the first time in 2020, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an annual survey of private households, surveyed the donation behavior of a random sample of high net worth individuals that had been added in 2019. As a result of this sample, the volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471196
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Rising Inequalities in Access to Home Ownership among Young Households in France, 1973-2013
Bonnet, Carole - 2019
Amongst young households (ages 25 to 44), inequalities in first-time home-ownership and in the amount of acquired real estate assets have increased between the most modest and the most affluent groups over the past forty years. According to Insee's Housing surveys, 32% of young low-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890692
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Preferences over relative income within the household
Hermle, Johannes; Herold, Elena; Hildebrand, Nikolaus - 2024
preferences over relative income within the household that captures various motives, including inequality aversion and a … that women exhibit inequality aversion while men exhibit a preference for being the primary earner. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487237