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Inequality and unfairness in Europe

Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas - In: CESifo forum : a quarterly journal on European issues 19 (2018) 2, pp. 26-34

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Household income inequalities and labour market position in the European Union

Salverda, Wiemer - In: CESifo forum : a quarterly journal on European issues 19 (2018) 2, pp. 35-43

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928249

Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-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...

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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567072

Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the authors show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009411930

Relative income distribution in six European countries : market and disposable income

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010471715

Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation

Bönke, Timm (contributor); Schröder, Carsten (contributor) - 2007

Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....

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Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities

van Ham, Maarten - 2016

for local and national governments. Socio-economic segregation is the outcome of a combination of inequality and poverty …, and the spatial organisation of urban housing markets. Poverty, and living in poverty concentration neighbourhoods is … transmitted between generations and neighbourhood poverty is reproduced over time through to the residential mobility behaviour of …

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Energy Affordability in the EU : The Risks of Metric Driven Policies

Deller, David - 2016

States than the EU15. These variations indicate that a pan-EU fuel poverty metric is inappropriate. Secondly, household … recorded rate of fuel poverty. These simulations highlight that emphasising high-level fuel poverty metrics may distort … policymakers' decisions towards manipulating the ‘picture' of fuel poverty rather than maximising welfare improvements …

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The Weighting Role of Normalisation in a Multidimensional Analysis of Social Inclusion

Carrino, Ludovico - 2016

In the context of the multidimensional measurement of complex phenomena, the major focus of the recent literature has been on the choice of the dimensions' weights and the shape of the aggregation function, while few studies have concentrated on how normalisation influences the results. With the...

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