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Behind the curtain : the within-household sharing of income
Elsas, Susanne - 2011
. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare … satisfaction within couples are generally small. However, satisfaction is not a direct measure of welfare. Forthis reason …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154498
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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605
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Inequality, politics and economic growth
Chakrabarty, Debajyoti - 2002
The paper studies the relationship between inequality and economic growth. This is done in a two sector model of endogenous growth with agents characterized by heterogeneity of factor endowments. The private sector consists of a large number of competitive firms who produce the only final good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519047
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Welfare and inequality effects of debt consolidation processes : the case of Spain, 1996–2007
Viegas, Miguel; Ribeiro, Ana Paula - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 4, pp. 479-496
effects on economic inequality and welfare. For that purpose we built a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model capable … wealth. The results show a quite impressive positive welfare gain despite significant transition costs. The simulations point … economy evolves to its final steady state equilibrium. Overall, the welfare gains are slightly biased towards wealthier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417950
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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 24, pp. 1-30
In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s and negative effects for those over 45. In the UK, these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In West Germany, they cancel out to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533126
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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2015
variables over the period 1970 to 2013. For the baseline simulation, the welfare gain for capital owners is 3.7% of per …-period consumption while workers suffer a welfare loss of 1.4%. Using counterfactual simulations, we find that both groups could have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343080
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Income satisfaction inequality and its causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326418
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Crisis, response and distributional impact : the case of Ireland
Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Keane, Claire; Savage, Michael; … - 2013
, welfare and public sector pay changes over the 2008 to 2012 period gave rise to lower than average losses for the bottom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765520
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Multidimensional poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : new evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Gasparini, Leonardo; Sosa Escudero, Walter; Marchionni, … - In: Journal of economic inequality 11 (2013) 2, pp. 195-214
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750395
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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2013
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756035