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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - In: Empirical Economics 43 (2012) 3, pp. 1143-1169

Using representative income and time-use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyze their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach that relaxes...

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Gender and climate change in Latin America: An analysis of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience based on household surveys

Andersen, Lykke E.; Verner, Dorte; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2014

This paper analyzes gender differences in vulnerability and resilience to shocks, including climate change and climate …

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Construyendo resiliencia ante shocks adversos: Factores y estrategias asociadas a la vulnerabilidad y la resiliencia

Andersen, Lykke E.; Cardona, Marcelo - 2014

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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?

Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016

household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this …

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Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador

Jara, H. Xavier; Varela, Marcelo - 2017

The aim of this paper is to explore the redistributive effects of taxes and benefits in Ecuador using two different approaches: direct use of reported taxes and benefits in household survey data, and use of simulated taxes and benefits obtained from ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model...

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Fuel subsidies and income redistribution in Ecuador

Jara, H. Xavier; Lee, Po Chun; Montesdeoca, Lourdes; … - 2018

This paper aims to evaluate the progressivity of different fuel subsidies in Ecuador as well as the budgetary and distributional effects of a potential elimination of such subsidies. Our analysis makes use of ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, together with...

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Improving income protection for the elderly poor in Ecuador

Amores L., César A.; Jara, H. Xavier - 2018

A series of social benefits targeting vulnerable groups, such as the elderly population, has been implemented in Ecuador over the last few decades. Elderly adults living in vulnerable conditions and not affiliated with social security are entitled to noncontributory pension assistance under the...

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Identification of random resource shares in collective households without preference similarity restrictions

Dunbar, Geoffrey R.; Lewbel, Arthur; Pendakur, Krishna - 2017

Resource shares, defined as the fraction of total household spending going to each person in a household, are important for assessing individual material well-being, inequality and poverty. They are difficult to identify because consumption is measured typically at the household level, and many...

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Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua: An individual-based approach

Espinoza-Delgado, José; Klasen, Stephan - 2017

-household inequalities. Besides, by definition, households containing both a female and a male cannot contribute to a gender gap, so gender … differentials cannot be estimated. But, the Sustainable Development Goals have put special emphasis on gender equality along their … targets; therefore, new measures able to capture the gender differences are needed. Consequently, in this paper, we propose an …

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Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach

Betti, Gianni; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - 2017

This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy...

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