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Distribution of income, consumption, saving AEG meeting Washington DC, 8-10 September 2014

Distribution of income, consumption, saving AEG meeting Washington DC, 8-10 September 2014. Presented by Jennifer Ribarsky (OECD). Background. How to arrive at economic growth without people dropping out

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Distribution of income, consumption, saving AEG meeting Washington DC, 8-10 September 2014

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  1. Distribution of income, consumption, savingAEG meetingWashington DC, 8-10 September 2014 Presented by Jennifer Ribarsky (OECD)

  2. Background • How to arrive at economicgrowthwithout people dropping out -> need for information on how income, consumption and wealth are distributedacrosshouseholds • Main issues: • Existingdistributional information from micro sources: • Often focus on one dimension • In most cases no consistent time series • Not following international standards, especiallyrelated to wealth • National accounts data on householdshardlyprovideanydistributional information

  3. Background • Early 2011: OECD-Eurostat Expert Group (EG DNA) • Mandate: studyfeasibility to arrive at an internationally comparable methodology for generatingdistributional information consistent with national accounts • Members: 25 countries, ECB, Luxembourg IncomeStudies • Organisation of the work: • Phase 1 (2011): comparison between micro and macro data sources on households’ income, consumption and wealth => to better understand similarities and divergences between both data sources • Phase 2 (2012): allocation of national account totals to groups of households using a range of micro sources; derivation of disparity measures on income, consumption and saving, for a given year

  4. Main results of first EG DNA • Sharing knowledge across countries and between micro and macro experts • Better understanding of NA concepts and compilation procedures, household micro data collection, and differences between both of them • Compilation of experimental disparity measures across households groups consistent with NA estimates: • for a range of OECD countries • based on common templates and methodology

  5. Savings* as a percentage of adjusted disposable income *Difference between adjusted disposable income and actual final consumption plus the change in net equity of households in pension funds.

  6. Transactions and transfers between households of different quintiles Impact of transfers between households on saving rates positive values refer to higher saving rates after transfers were taken into account

  7. Economic theories of consumption • Milton Friedman’s Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) • emphasizes the attempts of the individual to smooth its consumption over time, adjusting consumption and saving levels according to an expected long-term permanent income, and therefore evaluating income shocks by their persistence: smoothing out temporary fluctuations in income, and adjusting consumption levels to income shocks that are perceived to be long lasting. • Modigliani and Brumberg’s Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) • states that individuals plan their consumption behaviour over their lifetime: in their early (student) years they may consume more than their income (for example on their education), then in their most productive (highest income earning years) they pay back the accumulated debt and save for their retirement, and finally they dis-save as pensioners (use up the accumulated assets).

  8. Average age of head of household by equivalised disposable income quintile

  9. Statistical issues • Income related to the non-observed economy underestimated for the lower income quintiles? • Inconsistent responses (case of France) • Imperfect quintile allocation of households for consumption components • Imputations related to owner occupied dwellings (primarily due to delineation of what is included in intermediate consumption (such as FISIM on mortgages and maintenance and repairs))

  10. Goals of EG DNA (extended mandate) • To produce information on income and consumption for a more recent year, via a streamlined questionnaire • To assess the robustness of the assumptions made • To assess the techniques developed to link micro and macro data • To develop and evaluate methods and sources for extrapolating distributional dynamics from benchmark years using more timely available aggregate statistics

  11. Milestones of EG DNA (extended mandate) • Expert group met in April 2014 • To discuss its mandate and organise the work • Results from previous exercise discussed (with focus on negative saving rates and STiK) • September 2014 OECD secretariat will issue a redesigned questionnaire template for the collection of data and metadata • Next expert group meeting June 2015 • Final report December 2015

  12. Long term vision • To make readily available income, consumption and savings of households by income quintiles ; • Consistently with the corresponding national accounts totals • Ideally as part of the normal SNA/statistics production process • This information is crucial to be able to add a distributional dimension to macroeconomic analysis

  13. Thank you for your attention!

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