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This paper examines the digital divide in internet use in general and whether there may be digital divides in internet use for specific purposes (leisure, improving human capital and obtaining goods and services). It uses a unique dataset which covers the entire clickstream of almost 20,000...
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We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
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inequality and poverty. This has been combined with gains in leisure time, especially time spent in retirement, low unemployment …
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paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … overall income inequality masks compensating changes between the lower and upper halves of the income distribution. Also, it … inequality and comparing their evolution over time provides new policy-relevant perspectives on the nature of the changing income …
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policy on household welfare. The paper provides an illustration of the mapping of trade policy induced price changes onto …
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This report summarises the methodologies used in the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in 15 euro area countries for a sample of more than 62,000 households. The report presents the...
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This report summarises key stylised facts from the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in 15 euro area countries for a sample of more than 62,000 households. The report presents results on...
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In this paper, we estimate consumption in the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey for a subset of countries that account for around 85% of the aggregate final consumption expenditure of households in the euro area. For this purpose we use the methodology...
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concentration is twice the level of income inequality: across the 28 OECD countries covered, the wealthiest 10% of households hold …
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also who moves up and down the income ladder over time. While income inequality has increased in most OECD countries, in … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality … to greater income inequality but also higher upward income mobility. Indeed, the analysis in the paper shows upward …
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