Creedy, John; Eedrah, Jesse - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2014
When measuring inequality, value judgements are imposed, often implicitly, at several stages. In particular, the choice … of ‘welfare metric’, adult equivalence scale, unit of analysis and the inequality measure itself cannot avoid value … inequality are decomposed into those arising from population and tax structure changes. When considering the period 2007 to 2010 …