THE SAM AS A FRAMEWORK TO CATCH THE GENERATION PROCESS OF INEQUALITY IN THE HOUSEHOLDS INCOME DISTRIBUTION

Marisa Civardi () and Renata Targetti Lenti ()
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Marisa Civardi: Emeritus Professor, Bicocca University
Renata Targetti Lenti: Emeritus Professor, Pavia University

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2019, vol. 127, issue 4, 327-358

Abstract: The paper introduces the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) as a suitable framework to catching the inequality generating process of households income distribution. This framework which allows linking personal to functional income distribution highlights the linkages between the different sources of inequality: the macro features of the productive system and the individual/household endowments. This approach, we argue, could be useful in evaluating the impact of ‘‘policies’’, aimed at reducing poverty and inequality ex-ante. The paper shows, also, how the SAM could be a step towards a ‘‘system of distributional accounts’’ (DINA). This approach is aimed to collect macro National Account (NA) data making them consistent with the microdata coming from the households income surveys. Two numerical examples, referred to the Italian economy, based on the SAM as a tool of policy analysis are introduced. The resulting multipliers matrices help to highlight the existence of relationships between functional and personal income distribution.

Keywords: SAM; Personal income distribution; Factor income distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D33 E16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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