The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in … empirical work on poverty measurement is clarified. -- Poverty measures ; differences in needs ; principle of transfers …

of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … vergleichbar zu machen. Aufgrund ihrer praktischen Relevanz für die Messung von Ungleichheit und Armut wurden etliche Methoden für … this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric …