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This study presents estimates of multi-dimensional household inequality in Australia from the 2001-2017. Household … earnings inequality shows a decreasing trend, while inequality for household disposable income, non-durable consumption …
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inequality amplifies the negative income gradient, and that the rich are no more empathetic towards children than they are …
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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...
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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
We document facts about earnings and disposable income inequality and growth in Denmark in the period 1987-2016. During …
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We document a clear increase in Swedish earnings inequality in the early 1990s. Inequality in disposable income and … earnings net of taxes and transfers also increased, but much less than the increased inequality in pre-government earnings … observations, we see no clear trend in consumption inequality. We also estimate stochastic processes for household earnings. A …
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Making use of official survey data, we examine the evolution of household income inequality in Turkey during the past … fifteen years. We observe the contributions to inequality of the main components of household income, namely labor market … earnings inequality among women continues to be higher than among men, and that the gender earnings gap is smaller among wage …
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We develop a decomposition of distributional change by factor components to quantify how changes in the association between sources of income and changes in their marginal distributions contribute to the change in the distribution of household incomes over time. The two components are further...
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Im Lichte der Bundestagswahl widmet sich der IW-Verteilungsreport 2021 der Frage, ob die besonders in Wahlkampfzeiten oft bemühte Behauptung einer sich weiter öffnenden Einkommensschere zwischen Arm und Reich der Faktenlage standhält. Dazu wird neben der Entwicklung der Primärverteilung...
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We explore the long-run relationship between income risk, inequality, and the macroeconomy in an overlapping … they require for bearing risk, leading to higher measured income and wealth inequality, a lower risk-free real interest … rate, and higher risk premiums. These findings suggest that the factors behind the observed rise in inequality over the …
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