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Equity and efficiency when needs differ
Berg, Kristoffer; Håvarstein, Morten; Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2024
There is no consensus on how to measure social welfare and inequality when households have different needs. As we show, a dilemma emerges between holding households responsible for their needs or compensating them. This dilemma is of first-order importance for social welfare, but generally plays...
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Households in transit : COVID-19 and the changing measurement of welfare
Caron, Laura; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2022
methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion … transportation costs can result in up to a 40% reduction in the measured poverty rate among remote-working households. …
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Intra-Household Welfare
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014
In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals …
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Income vs. consumption inequality in South Korea : evaluating stochastic dominance rankings by various household attributes
Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - 2013
-to-date picture of inequality and poverty by subgroup in South Korea which helps targeting particularly vulnerable groups. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211170
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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements
Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020
empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer …
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Financial Stress Thresholds and Household Equivalence Scales
Lim, Guay C. - 2015
This paper relates indicators of household financial stress to household income and expenditure with the objective of identifying household stress thresholds and comparable equivalence scales. A model is proposed whereby households try to absorb income shocks or shifts by shrinking consumption...
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Ist die Energiewende sozial gerecht?
Heindl, Peter; Schüßler, Rudolf; Löschel, Andreas - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 7, pp. 508-514
, affordability of energy among the poorest should receive increasing attention. Measures of fuel poverty and deprivation with respect …
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Reinforcing households' capabilities as a way to reduce vulnerability and prevent poverty in equitable terms
Dubois, Jean-Luc; Rousseau, Sophie - In: The capability approach : concepts, measures and …, (pp. 421-436). 2008
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Micro and Macro Analysis on Household Income, Wealth and Saving in the Euro Area
Honkkila, Juha - 2013
The report on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress by Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi concludes that in the measurement of household welfare all material components should be covered, i.e. consumption, income and wealth, from both the micro as well as the macro perspective....
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Micro and Macro Data : A Comparison of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey with Financial Accounts in Austria
Andreasch, Michael - 2014
This paper compares the survey results on savings deposits and estimates on total financial assets from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) in Austria with administrative records from the national accounts for the household sector. The micro data newly generated through the HFCS...
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