Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Carsten Schröder and Timm Bönke

Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), 2012, vol. 6, No 2012-28, 43 pages

Abstract: Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of our results.

Keywords: inequality; equivalence scale; equivalent income; weighting; heterogeneous distribution; quasi-homogeneous distribution; inequality decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-28

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