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Vermögen in Deutschland wesentlich ungleicher verteilt als Einkommen
Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 45, pp. 665-672
Das private Vermögen in Deutschland ist vor dem Hintergrund der Erbschaftsteuerreform und der zunehmenden Privatisierung der sozialen Vorsorge verstärkt in den Blickpunkt der wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Diskussion gerückt. Mit den Ergebnissen der Vermögenserhebung im Rahmen des...
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The welfare impact of rising food prices : the walfare impact of rising food prices differs for net food consumers and net producers
Dimova, Ralitza - 2015
Dramatic food price spikes in recent years have stimulated debate on the welfare implications of food price risk. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa rose to a record 265 million in 2009. There is a...
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Distributional consequences of asset price inflation in the euro area
Adam, Klaus; Tzamourani, Panagiota - 2015
correlate with household net wealth (or income). Bond price increases thus leave net wealth inequality largely unchanged. In … wealth inequality. Housing price increases display a hump shaped pattern over the net wealth distribution, with the poorest …
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
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Measuring earnings inequality in South Africa using household survey and administrative tax microdata
Kerr, Andrew - 2021
Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …
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Japanese monetary policy and household saving
Israel, Karl-Friedrich; Sepp, Tim; Sonnenberg, Nils - 2021
it. The paper documents how inequality in terms of the ability to build up wealth has increased in Japan over the past …
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Monetary policy, agent heterogeneity and inequality : insights from a three-agent New Keynesian model
Eskelinen, Maria - 2021
homogeneous MPC rates. Consumption inequality is countercyclical in this setting and a high degree of leverage amplifies the …
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Wealth survey calibration : imposing consistency with income tax data
Kolář, Daniel - 2022
Wealth surveys tend to underestimate wealth concentration at the top due to the "missing rich" problem. We propose a new way of improving the credibility of wealth surveys: We make them consistent with tabulated income tax data. This is possible with the Household Finance and Consumption Survey...
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Modigliani meets Minsky: inequality, debt, and financial fragility in America, 1950-2016
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz - 2020
This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and …
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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 …
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