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objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP …
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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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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 income...
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We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
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and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …
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inflation and measures welfare changes using the compensating variation and equivalent incomes in a cross-national comparative … perspective. The impact of inflation depends on good-specific price increases and budget shares. Budget shares for necessities (e … necessities has resulted in higher inflation in poorer countries. Counter to the media narrative, the distributional impact is …
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changes. This paper explores the impact of inflation and uses compensating variations and equivalized incomes to measure … shifts in welfare in a cross-country comparative context. The effects of inflation are closely related to specific price … originally thought. Nevertheless, there are notable differences across countries in the level of inflation, its composition, and …
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …
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,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last …
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