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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Development of family income since the 1990s : a fresh look at German microdata using income-dependent equivalence scales

Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; Pehle, Sebastian; … - 2018

Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. However, the situation of families that di?er in size and composition is rarely considered more closely in this context. Relevant research typically relies on equivalence scales to make income...

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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory: implications for poverty measurement

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2021

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …

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Equality of opportunity for well-being

Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

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A behaviouristic approach for measuring poverty : the decomposition approach ; empirical illustrations for Germany 1995-2009

Faik, Jürgen - 2011

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … traditional poverty measurement to refer to income-independent equivalence scales is principally avoided. Moreover, the further … zur konventionellen Methode der Messung von (Einkommens-)Armut. Da es realistisch erscheint, dass einige Personen ihre …

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Measurement of health, the sensitivity of the concentration index, and reporting heterogeneity

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009

Using representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when...

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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP

Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010

reporting, the EU-SILC data are of great international significance for comparative EU-wide measurement, description, and …

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Walls of glass : measuring deprivation in social participation

Suppa, Nicolai - 2018

This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that...

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A new framework of measuring inequality : variable equivalence scales and group-specific well-being limits ; sensitivity findings for German personal income distribution 1995 - 2009

Faik, Jürgen - 2011

Das Diskussionspapier untersucht Sensitivitätseinflüsse auf die deutsche personelle Einkommensverteilung in … Weiteren wird der im Papier präsentierte neue Ansatz in Bezug auf die Messung der Einkommensungleichheit, welcher variable …

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