Per-capita income versus household-need adjusted income: a cross-country comparison

Christos Koulovatianos, Polina Minkovski () and Carsten Schröder
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Polina Minkovski: New York University

Journal of Income Distribution, 2009, vol. 18, issue 3-4, 11-23

Abstract: We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by Household-Size Economies, due to the within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multi-member households. In most of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline in monetary gains achieved by Household-Size Economies over time. This decline is the result of a demographic trend towards smaller-sized household units, rather than a change in the shares of aggregate disposable income earned by household types of different size.

Keywords: equivalence scale; welfare; demographic change; Luxembourg Income Study; household size economies; income distribution; family economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D13 D31 I31 J11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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