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A cross country study of equivalence scales and expenditure inequality on unit record household budget data
Lancaster, Geoffrey; Ray, Ranjan; Valenzuela, Maria … - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000976867
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Households in transit : COVID-19 and the changing measurement of welfare
Caron, Laura; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic placed new constraints and prices on commuting to work around the world. However, traditional … these changes. First, we present theory showing significant mismeasurement of welfare for households who can shift into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431352
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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales
Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020
Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165604
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Empirical analyses of inequality and welfare
Maasoumi, Esfandiar - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001328885
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Extended income dynamics : valueing household production and its distributional impacts ; a ten years panelanalysis for professions, entrepreneurs and employees in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - In: Time use - research, data and policy : contributions …, (pp. 351-382). 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001597739
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus : The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197386
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus : The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147128
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Extended income inequality and poverty dynamics of labour market and household activities : a ten years microanalysis with the German socio-economic panel
Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1998
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674603
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824264