We argue that independent entitlement to income is important. This implies that earnings replacement benefits paid to …. The argument also highlights the need to consider gender differences in the receipt of income. We explore the implications …

equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …

equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …

income couples with children. In areas of child goods, evidence of important spending increases are found, whereas spending …

entitlements for low income families will further reduce poverty and increase equality. However, the cost of childcare remains high …

This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour … BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014. We measure idiosyncratic risk in labour income by the relevant …

This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses … Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic idiosyncratic income into its transitory, persistent and fixed components …. We then estimate how income risk, measured by the variance and the skewness of the probability distribution of shocks to …

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …