The net effect of housing related costs and advantages on the relationship between inequality and poverty

Lin Yang

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Abstract: This paper examines how inequality from the interaction of income and housing circumstances changes the relative position of households in the income distribution, and influences the incidence and socio-demographic profile of those in housing-induced poverty. Three measures of income are used – the standard Before Housing Costs (BHC) measure, and the After Housing Costs (AHC) and With Housing Income (WHI) measures which adjust for housing in two different ways – to analyse the net effect of housing costs and advantages on poverty and inequality, and the underlying distributional changes linking the two.

Keywords: poverty; inequality; housing costs; imputed rent; measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D60 I30 I32 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2018-11
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