The Influence of Co-residence on Family Income Distribution in Taiwan.

• Main Authors: Ching-yuan Wu, 吳清源
• Other Authors: 鄭保志
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20892438671200889529

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 經濟學研究所 === 95 === Using the 1988 to 2004 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), this thesis examines effects of geographic factors and within-family income concentration on various quantiles of the income distribution among all co-residing families. Our empirical findings show that it is more unlikely for young family members with higher incomes to co-reside with elderly members, and co-residence tends to relieve poor family members in poverty. We also verify the benefits from co-residence due to its increasing-returns-to-scale property by comparing income distributions among co-residing and non co-resing families.