Decomposing changes in income risk using consumption data

Quantitative Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-37

  Blundell, Richard ^a   Low, Hamish ^a   Preston, Ian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption; Income risk; Inequality; Nonstationarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883370752     PISSN: 17597323     EISSN: 17597331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/QE44     Document Type: Article

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