Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Timm Bönke; Carsten Schröder

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 explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of our results. -- Inequality ; equivalence scale ; equivalent income ; weighting scheme ; decomposition

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Bönke, Timm ; Schröder, Carsten
Publisher:	Berlin : DIW
Subject:	Haushaltseinkommen \| Household income \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Konzentrationsmaß \| Concentration measurement \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 18, [15] S., 319 KB) graph. Darst.
Series:	Discussion papers / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung. - Berlin : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1619-4535, ZDB-ID 2125067-4. - Vol. 1068
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/49415 [Handle]
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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