The study focuses on the usage of income in Germany as well as in Lower Saxony. Concretely, the material situation of … database the scientific use file of the Income and Expenditure Survey (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe, EVS) 2003 is used …. In detail, calculations especially concerning the item “living” are made. Furthermore, income and price elasticities are …

Purpose – China's remarkable income growth has changed the food landscape in recent years. Chinese consumers are … with respect to household income are estimated. These estimates are then converted to nutrient elasticities to show how the … availability of nutrients varies with income based on the Engel demand relationship. Findings – The income elasticities diminish as …

The household National Account published by the national statistical office presents a picture of the income … surveys exist providing individual data on income and consumption. Those surveys are used to measure inequalities between … levels) have been combined to give a breakdown of income and consumption measured in the national accounts (for the year 2003 …

trend relationship among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and three major sources of risk: future … changes in the housing consumption share, cr, future labour income growth, lr, and future consumption growth, lrc. Using a VAR …

income / life cycle hypotheses concerning consumer behaviour in terms of the empirical evidence. Attention is also devoted to …

the endogeneity of all the income variables, allows for simultaneity between all the income and expenditure equations. …

This paper presents and investigates two classes of equivalent-income functions that are generalizations of those that … income. We show that, under certain conditions, equivalent-income functions and the associated income-dependent equivalence … are both plausible and income dependent. In addition, the estimated scales are used to measure inequality and we find that …

We study the optimal consumption behavior under the set of assumptions associated with the permanent income hypothesis …