EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Inequality Measures, Equivalence Scales and Adjustment for Household Size and Composition

Paolo Figini

No 185, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Total household income inequality can be very different from inequality measured at the income per-capita level but only in recent years has the patter of this divergence been investigated. In this paper, result form Coulter et al. (1992) using a one-parameter equivalence scale are updated using data for Ireland, Italy, the UK and the US. A class of two-parameter equivalence scales, representing relative weights of adults and children, is then analyzed. Results are shown to depend on the correlation between household size, household composition and household income. Inequality generally increases with childrens weight and decreases with adults weight. OECD and other two-parameter equivalence scales empirically used show a similarity of results to one-parameter equivalence scales with elasticity around 0.5.

Pages: 34 pages
Date: 1998-06
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (22)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/185.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Inequality Measures, Equivalence Scales and Adjustment for Household Size and Composition (1998) Downloads
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lis:liswps:185

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Piotr Paradowski (publication@lisdatacenter.org).

 
Page updated 2024-12-28
Handle: RePEc:lis:liswps:185