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Do All Belgians Face the Same Inflation Rate?
22 May 2006
Jean Hindriks
Inflation is not popular since it affects everyone. But are we all equally affected by inflation? This question matters in Belgium with the automatic indexation of wages and welfare benefits. Indeed if inflation turns out to affect poor households more than the rich, possibly due to different consumption patterns, indexation may offer unequal protection against inflation. In this paper, Jean Hindriks shows that, surprisingly enough, the inflation rate does not differ much across income groups.
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