Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; Pehle, Sebastian; … - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2021) 4, pp. 855-873
comparable across different types of households, applying the "(modified) OECD scale" – an equivalence scale with fixed weights … for each household type – has become a quasi-standard in research. Instead, we derive a base-dependent equivalence scale … equivalence scales are much steeper at the lower end of the income distribution than they are for higher income levels. We …