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An Alternative Income Deflator for Some Brazilian Household Surveys
Foguel, Miguel Natan; Leite Corseuil, Carlos Henrique - 2003
The goal of this paper is to offer an alternative procedure to deflate the income values in Brazil. We base our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090233
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Regional income distribution and human capital formation : a model of intergenerational education transfer in a global context
Bartholomae, Florian W. (contributor);  … - 2009
The demographic problems in developed countries are getting more and more important. Very low fertility rates especially among skilled individuals will soon become relevant for a country's economy. Also of importance is education of children. Since there is an increasing demand for skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811601
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Income taxation of US households : basic facts
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233112
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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality
Eika, Lasse - 2019
quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative … mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. This is because the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891952
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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality
Eika, Lasse - 2014
We investigate the pattern of educational assortative mating, its evolution over time, and its impact on household … analysis, where we quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049427
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Regional Income Distribution and Human Capital Formation - A Model of Intergenerational Education Transfer in a Global Context
Bartholomae, Florian W. - 2009
The demographic problems in developed countries are getting more and more important. Very low fertility rates especially among skilled individuals will soon become relevant for a country's economy. Also of importance is education of children. Since there is an increasing demand for skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720795
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Intra-household income inequality and preferences for redistribution
Haußen, Tina - 2018
, 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 … poorer partners' preferences may, in fact, indicate preferences for intra-household redistribution from the richer to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809361
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Development of family income since the 1990s : a fresh look at German microdata using income-dependent equivalence scales
Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; Pehle, Sebastian; … - 2018
Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. However, the situation of families that di?er in size and composition is rarely considered more closely in this context. Relevant research typically relies on equivalence scales to make income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919611
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Poverty and intra-household resource allocation in Surinamese households
Khadan, Jeetendra; Strobl, Eric; Tuffour, Theophiline - 2020
This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a bargaining model estimation framework that allows one to identify the allocation of resources across adult and children males and females. Our results using the Suriname...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153189
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Marital sorting, household inequality and selection
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis - 2023
working full time full year, and its impact on household income inequality. We also investigate how marriage sorting patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388823