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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003655003
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Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?
Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2017
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763830
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Not all inequality measures were created equal : the measurement of wealth inequality, its decompositions, and an application to European household wealth
Costa, Rita Neves; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - 2019
Much of the literature on inequality, both that on the theoretical features of inequality measurement and that on the … distributions. The paper focuses on the measurement of inequality itself and includes an application to European data on wealth. We …, grounding their use in socio-economic theory and highlighting the connections between them. In particular, we investigate how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137161
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The Cost of Inequality : Social Distance, Predatory Conduct, and the Financial Crisis
Brescia, Raymond H. - 2011
Many have offered theorie ... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133086
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Regional income distribution in the European Union : a parametric approach
Spasova, Tsvetana - 2019
This work studies trends in income distributions and inequality in the European Union using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. We model the income distribution for each country under a Dagum distribution assumption and using maximum likelihood techniques. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119805
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Income inequality in Europe : what role does gender inequality play?
Gehringer, Agnieszka; Klasen, Stephan; Villalobos … - 2020
Given the demographic structure of the population of the European countries, this paper examines how gender gaps in earned and non-earned income contribute to explain between household income inequality. We show that this impact depends not only on the existing gender gaps but also on the way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483317
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European incomes, national advantages : EU-wide inequality and its decomposition by country and region
Filauro, Stefano - 2017
This study analyses EU-28- and euro area-level income distribution with the latest EU-SILC data. More specifically it shows the evolution of inequality in net disposable and market incomes over the pre- and post-crisis period (2006-2013). I find that inequality between the EU-28 and euro area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785056
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Measuring income polarization for twenty European countries, 2004-13 : a Shapley growth-redistribution decomposition
Wang, Jinxian; Caminada, Koen; Wang, Chen - In: Eastern European economics 55 (2017) 6, pp. 477-499
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005738
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Ordinal variables and the measurement of upward and downward intergenerational educational mobility in European countries
Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Nissanov, Zoya; Silber, Jacques - In: Review of income and wealth 69 (2023) 3, pp. 776-800
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014365348
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609017