Search Results - "The Review of income and wealth"

The OECD Better Life Initiative: How's Life? and the Measurement of Well-Being by Durand, Martine

“…This paper presents the framework used by the OECD for defining and measuring well‐being, developed as part of the OECD Better Life Initiative launched in…”
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SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS MEASUREMENT WITH DISCRETE PROXY VARIABLES: IS PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS A RELIABLE ANSWER? by Kolenikov, Stanislav, Angeles, Gustavo

“…The last several years have seen a growth in the number of publications in economics that use principal component analysis (PCA) in the area of welfare…”
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GDP Per Capita Versus Median Household Income: What Gives Rise to the Divergence Over Time and how does this Vary Across OECD Countries? by Nolan, Brian, Roser, Max, Thewissen, Stefan

“…Divergence between the evolution of GDP per capita and the income of a “typical” household as measured in household surveys is giving rise to a range of…”
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Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990–2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region? by Alvaredo, Facundo, Assouad, Lydia, Piketty, Thomas

“…In this paper we combine household surveys, national accounts, income tax data and wealth data in order to estimate income concentration in the Middle East for…”
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Generalized Pareto Curves: Theory and Applications by Blanchet, Thomas, Fournier, Juliette, Piketty, Thomas

“…We define generalized Pareto curves as the curve of inverted Pareto coefficients b(p), where b(p) is the ratio between average income above rank p and the p‐th…”
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Warning: Some transaction prices can be detrimental to your house price index by Hill, Robert J., Pfeifer, Norbert, Steurer, Miriam, Trojanek, Radoslaw

“…There is a broad consensus in international statistical organizations such as Eurostat and the International Monetary Fund that house price indices (HPIs)…”
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Inequality Measurement and The Rich: Why Inequality Increased More Than We Thought by Cowell, Frank A., Flachaire, Emmanuel

“…To compare income and wealth distributions and to assess the effects of policy that affect those distributions require reliable inequality‐measurement tools…”
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INTANGIBLE CAPITAL AND U.S. ECONOMIC GROWTH by Corrado, Carol, Hulten, Charles, Sichel, Daniel

“…Published macroeconomic data traditionally exclude most intangible investment from measured GDP. This situation is beginning to change, but our estimates…”
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The Magnitude of the Task Ahead: Macro Implications of Heterogeneous Technology by Eberhardt, Markus, Teal, Francis

“…The empirical growth literature is dominated by accounting and regression methods that assume common production technology across countries. Our empirical…”
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A bivariate relative poverty line for leisure time and income poverty: Detecting intersectional differences using distributional copulas by Dorn, Franziska, Radice, Rosalba, Marra, Giampiero, Kneib, Thomas

“…Empirical research on poverty today often goes beyond a focus on income to consider other dimensions of well‐being. However, relatively few multidimensional…”
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Pandemic Policy and Life Satisfaction in Europe by Clark, Andrew E., Lepinteur, Anthony

“…We use data from the COME‐HERE longitudinal survey collected by the University of Luxembourg to assess the effects of the policy responses to the COVID‐19…”
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The Well‐Being Cost of Inflation Inequalities by Prati, Alberto

“…In terms of well‐being, how costly is inflation? To answer this question, empirical evaluations have typically studied average inflation rates at the national…”
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The “F Words”: Why Surveying Businesses About Intangibles is so Hard by Martin, Josh

“…Understanding of the value and economic contribution of intangible assets is hampered by measurement challenges, which stem from the characteristics of…”
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Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden by Adermon, Adrian, Laun, Lisa, Lind, Patrik, Olsson, Martin, Sauermann, Jan, Sjögren, Anna

“…Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID‐19 pandemic. We study the importance of…”
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Horizontal Inequalities in Africa by Tetteh‐Baah, Samuel, Harttgen, Kenneth, Lahoti, Rahul, Günther, Isabel

“…We estimate horizontal inequality across the African continent over time based on four identity cleavages—location, ethnicity, gender, and religion—and four…”
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Intangible capital and productivity divergence by Mouel, Marie Le, Schiersch, Alexander

“…Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of advanced economies and ensuring…”
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Reference Groups and Relative Effects on Well‐Being by Kudrna, Laura

“…Economic growth may not improve society if people compare their achievements to others in relative ways that detract from well‐being. But who are these others…”
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Peer Effects in Stock Market Participation: Evidence from Immigration by Girshina, Anastasia, Mathä, Thomas Y., Ziegelmeyer, Michael

“…This paper studies how peers' financial behavior affects individuals' own investment choices. To identify the peer effect, we exploit the composition of the…”
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Estimating regional house price levels by Pionnier, Pierre‐Alain, Schuffels, Johannes

“…While quality‐adjusted indices tracing the evolutions of regional house prices are increasingly available, this is less the case for data on regional house…”
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Evaluating the Distributive Incidence of Growth Using Cross‐sections and Panels by Berman, Yonatan, Bourguignon, François

“…We study decennial anonymous and non‐anonymous growth incidence curves in the United States during the past 50 years. The former show income growth by quantile…”
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