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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020

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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Methodological notes on composite indicators for monitoring working conditions

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2018

Several devices in designing composite indicators for policy monitoring and benchmarking are discussed: weighting and scaling of variables, hierarchical organization, handling rank-based variables, relief tables, survey simulation techniques which combine normative and empirical data. Some...

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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 …

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A model-based measurement device in European fiscal policy-making : the ontology and epistemology of potential output

Heimberger, Philipp; Kapeller, Jakob - 2016

While the development of scientific theories and measurement concepts has always been strongly intertwined, model … this paper, we analyze the ontological and epistemological characteristics of such a model-based measurement device in an … implementation of measurement techniques as well as the application and interpretation of measurement outcomes. …

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Concepts and Methodologies for Measuring the Sustainability of Cities

Roche, María Yetano; Lechtenböhmer, Stefan; … - 2014

In recent decades, better data and methods have become available for understanding the complex functioning of cities and their impacts on sustainability. This review synthesizes the recent developments in concepts and methods being used to measure the impacts of cities on environmental...

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