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Chapter 5 Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries
Gottschalk, Peter; Smeeding, Timothy M. - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 261-307). 2000
This chapter reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of annual disposable income inequality in over 20 wealthy nations. We begin by reviewing a number of conceptual and measurement issues which must be addressed by any cross-national comparison of survey-based household income data....
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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994
Die Wahl einer passenden Äquivalenzskala ist Voraussetzung für Vergleiche der Einkommensverteilung ökonomischer …
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Two scales, one methodology : expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 1994
länderübergreifende Vergleiche benutzt werden. -- Alternative Äquivalenzskalen ; Deutschland ; USA ;Einkommensverteilung ; Ungleichheit … for cross-national comparisons. -- alternative equivalence scale ; Germany ; USA ; distribution of income ; inequality …Die Wahl einer passenden Äquivalenzskala ist Voraussetzung für Vergleiche der Einkommensverteilung ökonomischer …
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
German and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of Germans and Americans in the 1980s. In our analysis we use both official equivalence scales and consumption-based country-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and...
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Inequality in 3-D : income, consumption, and wealth
Fisher, Jonathan; Johnson, David S.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 2017
We do not need to and should not have to choose amongst income, consumption, or wealth as the superior measure of well-being. All three individually and jointly determine well-being. We are the first to study inequality in three conjoint dimensions for the same households, using income,...
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
Äquivalenzskalen ; Deutschland ; USA ; Einkommensverteilung ; Ungleichheit ; Armut … within the population, especially older single people. -- alternative equivalence scale ; Germany ; USA ; distribution of …
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Inequality and Poverty in the United States : The Aftermath of the Great Recession
Thompson, Jeffrey P. - 2013
This paper explores trends in inequality and poverty using both market and after-tax and transfer income in the period during and after the Great Recession (through 2011). Using market income (or wages), inequality and poverty rose sharply between 2008 and 2010. The primary exception is measures...
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Rising income inequality and living standards in OECD countries : how does the middle fare?
Thewissen, Stefan; Kenworthy, Lane; Nolan, Brian; Roser, Max - 2015
This paper uses data from the key comparative sources available for the rich countries to examine how both real median incomes and income inequality have evolved from around 1980 through the Great Recession. There are striking differences across OECD countries in average real median income...
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Comparing Wealth Distribution across Rich Countries : First Results from the Luxembourg Wealth Study
Brandolini, Andrea - 2012
The new Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) creates for the first time a harmonized cross national database on household assets and liabilities. This paper describes the project, outlines conceptual and practical issues that need to be addressed in preparing harmonized and comparable wealth data...
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Ranking Inequality : Applications of Multivariate Subset Selection
Horrace, William C. - 2011
Inequality measures are often presented in the form of a rank ordering to highlight their relative magnitudes. However, a rank ordering may produce misleading inference, because the inequality measures themselves are statistical estimators with different standard errors, and because a rank...
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