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Consumption inequality in the digital age
[Inégalités de consommation à l'ère numérique]

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  • Kai Arvai
  • Katja Mann

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Rich households consume digital goods more intensively than poor households. As digitalisation makes some goods and services cheaper, higher-income households benefit more. Using US household data, this blog argues that the relative price effect of digitalisation is sizeable and amplifies the effects that digitalisation has on income inequality. Les ménages aisés consomment davantage de biens numériques que les ménages pauvres. La numérisation rendant biens et services moins chers, les ménages aux revenus plus élevés en bénéficient d'avantage. En utilisant les données relatives aux ménages américains, ce billet soutient que l’effet prix relatif de la numérisation est significatif et amplifie les effets qu’elle exerce sur les inégalités de revenus.

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