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Income dependent equivalence scales, inequality, and poverty
Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - 2015
Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales in fact are income dependent. This paper explores the consistency of results derived from income independent and income...
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2013
-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We …This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. -- Prospect Theory …
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Reference income effects in the determination of equivalence scales using income satisfaction data
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Kuhställer, Carina - 2016
We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from reference effects in the determination of income...
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Social polarization and partisan voting in representative democracies
Duell, Dominik; Valasek, Justin - 2018
While scholars and pundits alike have expressed concern regarding increasing social polarization based on partisan identity, there has been little analysis of how social polarization impacts voting. In this paper, we incorporate social identity into a principal-agent model of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846281
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Pro-poor price trends and inequality : the case of India
Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders - 2016
It is well known that people’s consumption patterns change with income. Relative price changes therefore affect rich and poor consumers differently. Yet, the standard price indices are not income-specific and hence, the use of these mask these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we...
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States
Hufe, Paul; Kobus, Martyna; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul - 2022
measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093036
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The measurement of health inequalities : does status matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2016
The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547679
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International income inequality : measuring PPP bias by estimating Engel curves for food
Almås, Ingvild - 2010
Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732283