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Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also depends on its real and financial asset holdings as well as on the possibility to access the credit market. This paper investigates notions of poverty which rely on indicators of household net worth. We review and assess three main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth ...
Buenos Aires:
2009,
| Andrea Brandolini, Silvia Magri, Timothy M. Smeeding
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We analyse the evolution of EU citizens’ living standards, considering the EU as a single country. Average living standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic convergence of new EU-accession countries. EU15 income inequality fell steadily until the mid-1980s, but picked up ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(SOEPpapers 1052)
| Andrea Brandolini, Alfonso Rosolia
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This paper compares levels and trends in income inequality in industrialized nations. In the mid-1990s, the United States had the highest overall level of inequality of any rich OECD nation, while Northern and Central European countries had the lowest levels. Using a variety of national sources, no common trend is observed in the last quarter of a century. The inequality of disposable incomes increased ...
Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2007,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper Series No. 458)
| Andrea Brandolini, Timothy M. Smeeding
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Personality is a relevant predictor for important life outcomes across the entire lifespan. Although previous studies have suggested the comparability of the measurement of the Big Five personality traits across adulthood, the generalizability to childhood is largely unknown. The present study investigated the structure of the Big Five personality traits assessed with the Big Five Inventory-SOEP Version ...
In:
European Journal of Psychological Assessment
36 (2020), 1, 162-173
| Naemi D. Brandt, Michael Becker, Julia Tetzner, Martin Brunner, Poldi Kuhl, Kai Maaz
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We examine intergenerational mobility differences between Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the US. Using ranks, we find that the US is substantially less intergenerationally mobile than the three European countries and that the most mobile region of the US is less mobile than the least mobile regions of Norway and Sweden. Using a linear estimator of income share mobility, we find that the four countries ...
In:
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
119 (2017), 1, 72-101
| Espen Bratberg, Jonathan Davis, Bhashkar Mazumder, Martin Nybom, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Kjell Vaage
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In:
John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, Timothy M. Smeeding ,
From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage
New York: Russell Sage Foundation
311-344
| Massimiliano Bratti, Lorenzo Cappellari, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Henning Lohmann
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2008,
(IZA DP No. 3907)
| Massimiliano Bratti, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
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Considering the increasing attention on efficient use of energy, it becomes vitally important to understand the energy-related behavior of households. This article presents empirical evidence on the determinants of the space heating technology applied by a household. Three sets of variables are examined as potential influences—building, socio-economic, and regional characteristics. To highlight both ...
In:
Energy Policy
38 (2010), 10, 5493-5503
| Frauke G. Braun
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
| Frauke G. Braun, Fiorenza Carraro
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Konstanz:
1993,
(Sfb 178-Diskussionspapier Serie II - Nr. 200)
| Beatrix Brecht, Leo Brecht