Andrew E Clark,Conchita D&#x;Ambrosio,Anthony Lepinteur
Andrew E Clark
We here use panel data from the COME-HERE survey to track income inequality during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Relative inequality in equivalent household disposable income among individuals changed in a hump-shaped way b...
Mike Brewer,Iva Valentinova Tasseva
Mike Brewer
We analyse the UK policy response to Covid-19 and its impact on household incomes in the UK in April and May 2020, using microsimulation methods. We estimate that households lost a substantial share of their net income of 6.9% on average. B...
Simon Mongey,Laura Pilossoph,Alexander Weinberg
Simon Mongey
Using data from O∗NET, we construct two measures of an occupation's potential exposure to social distancing measures: (i) the ability to conduct that job from home and (ii) the degree of physical proximity to others the job requires. After...
Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America [0.03%]
封锁后果的代际传递：拉丁美洲新冠疫情长期持续性的预测分析
Guido Neidhöfer,Nora Lustig,Mariano Tommasi
Guido Neidhöfer
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown pol...
Vanda Almeida,Salvador Barrios,Michael Christl et al.
Vanda Almeida et al.
This analysis makes use of economic forecasts for 2020 issued by the European Commission in Autumn 2019 and Spring 2020, and of a counterfactual under a no-policy change assumption, to analyse the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on EU househo...
Markus Knell,Helmut Stix
Markus Knell
This paper studies the effect of income (wealth) inequality on interpersonal trust. We propose a theoretical framework that links trust, trustworthiness and inequality. The key feature is that agents do not necessarily observe the entire in...
Frank Cowell,Cecilia García-Peñalosa
Frank Cowell
Marisa Bucheli,Maximo Rossi,Florencia Amábile
Marisa Bucheli
The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of fiscal policy by race, disaggregating to consider Uruguayans with primarily European, African and indigenous ancestry. We perform an incidence analysis, an estimation of the effect of fiscal...
The implications of selective attrition for estimates of intergenerational elasticity of family income [0.03%]
样本选择性流失对代际收入弹性估计的影响分析
Robert F Schoeni,Emily E Wiemers
Robert F Schoeni
Numerous studies have estimated a high intergenerational correlation in economic status. Such studies do not typically attend to potential biases that may arise due to survey attrition. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics - the data so...
Trends in the Covariance Structure of Earnings in the U.S.: 1969-1987 [0.03%]
美国收入结构中的协同关系：1969-1987年的发展趋势
Robert A Moffitt,Peter Gottschalk
Robert A Moffitt
We examine the increasing variance of earnings of white men over the 1970s and 1980s by focusing on changes in the covariance structure of earnings. Using data from the Michigan PSID from 1969-1987, we find that about half of the increase h...