Search Results - subject:"Measurement"

Advani, Arun; Summers, Andy; Tarrant, Hannah - 2022

This paper examines measurement error in the share of income going to the top 1% (and other subgroups) that comes from …

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On focused, fit-for-purpose inequality measurement

Anderson, Gordon - 2022

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How important are the unit of analysis and equivalence scales when measuring income poverty and inequality? : evidence from Ireland

Regan, Mark; Kakoulidou, Theano - 2022

We analyse the effect of varying equivalization scales and income-sharing units (households, tax-units and benefit-units) on inequality and poverty statistics using Irish microdata. We find that benchmark equivalence scales result in substantial variation in the degree of income poverty...

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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory implications for poverty measurement

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …

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