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household income shows that the continued decline in household saving in the 1990s was broadly based and included middle …-class households as well as rich households, while saving by lower-income households held up in the 1990s but then declined the most in … the 2000s. Related to the subprime mortgage boom and property bubble, increased spending by lower-income households …
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are household equivalent disposable in-come, household consumption, and wealth. Subsequently we use the Income and … income and income more une-qually than consumption. … Expenditure Survey (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS)) for Germany since 1993 to compare inequality across income …
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This paper presents forecasts for the Financial Stress Index (FSI) and the Economic Sensitivity Index (ESI) for the period 0 - 0 5 for six countries in the region, namely the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. It is a continuation of the endeavor to construct...
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changes in living standards following from a death of a breadwinner, including those in household income, consumption … two. The data include information on the life insurances of Finnish individuals and their individual and household level … frequent among working-age, married and higher income individuals. The life insurance gap calculations account for a number of …
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detail (fruit and vegetables, baked goods, school meals) and a social empirical study (private households) was carried out …. The methods chosen include: technical discussions; round tables; status quo and control measurements; household survey …
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fairly low. At the same time, household size continues to decline. The increase in the number of households has been higher …
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We examine Okun's Law on the basis of new growth perspectives and in the context of the WWWForEurope project. By comparing Okun's work from 1962 with the latest IMF and OECD surveys, a connection is set up and Okun's theoretical framework is updated and its persistence is examined. In addition,...
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on output over the full sample on average? 2) Are financial developments leading real activity? 3) Is there heterogeneity …
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policy. It first reviews a range of indicators of full employment, highlights the heterogeneity of labour market outcomes …, the importance of employment income and wealth inequality in the transmission of monetary policy strengthens the case for …
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This paper analyses the implications of the evidence on micro price setting gathered by Price-setting Microdata Analysis Network (PRISMA) for inflation dynamics and monetary policy, relying on calibrated models and direct empirical evidence. According to models calibrated to the euro area micro...
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