Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales

Richard Burkhauser, Timothy Smeeding () and Joachim Merz

No 117, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: German and US LIS data are used to compare the relative economic well-being of Germans and Americans in the 1980s. Both official and consumption-based country specific equivalence scales are used.

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Date: 1994-11
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Published in The Review of Income and Wealth 42, no. 4 (December 1996): 381-400

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Journal Article: RELATIVE INEQUALITY AND POVERTY IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES USING ALTERNATIVE EQUIVALENCE SCALES (1996)
Working Paper: Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales (1994)
Working Paper: Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales (1994)
Working Paper: Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales (1994)
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