Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of our results.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Schröder, Carsten ; Bönke, Timm
Published in:	Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW), ISSN 1864-6042. - Vol. 6.2012, 2012-28, p. 1-43
Publisher:	Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW)
Subject:	inequality \| equivalence scale \| equivalent income \| weighting \| heterogeneous distribution \| quasi-homogeneous distribution \| inequality decomposition

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Type of publication:	Article
Other identifiers:	10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-28 [DOI]
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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