Czech households' income conditions according to the EU SILC statistics

Data Resource Profile: The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC).

Social and economic policies are inextricably linked with population health outcomes in Europe, yet few datasets are able to fully explore and compare this relationship across European countries. The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey aims to address this gap using microdata on income, living conditions and health. EU-SILC contains both cross-sectional an...

Comparative EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions: Issues and Challenges

This paper develops and discusses a framework for the assessment of statistical quality in EU-SILC, with focus on comparability as a central dimension of quality. We view data quality as a multidimensional concept, covering not only statistical accuracy but also the relevance, timeliness, comprehensiveness, etc., of the data. There is a broad agreement on what dimensions make up the overall qua...

Income inequality and foregone medical care in Europe during The Great Recession: multilevel analyses of EU-SILC surveys 2008–2013

BACKGROUND The association between income inequality and societal performance has been intensely debated in recent decades. This paper reports how unmet need for medical care has changed in Europe during The Great Recession, and investigates whether countries with smaller income differences have been more successful than inegalitarian countries in protecting access to medical care during an eco...

How Do Households Respond to Income Shocks

How do households respond to income shocks?∗

Commonly used consumption/saving models have radically different implications for households response to income shocks, ranging from the hands-to-mouth model, where consumption bears all the adjustment, to the complete markets model, where wealth bears all the adjustment. In this paper we use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, which is the only available micro dataset that conta...