Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic wellbeing income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...

Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic well-being income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...

Equivalence scales are a prerequisite for any economic well-being comparison with measures on income distribution, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German...

So einfach, so schwierig: Die Welt zu erklären hängt insbesondere von der Güte der zur Verfügung stehenden Daten ab. Eine der kritischen Variablen in der Mikroanalyse von Wohlfahrt und"human resources" ist Einkommen; umso mehr, wenn die Situation von Selbständigen und Freien Berufen und das...