Chapter 12 Variable Equivalence Scales and Trends in German Income Inequality

Jürgen Faik

A chapter in Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber, 2012, pp 311-336 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This paper examines the impact on German personal income distribution of income-dependent (variable) equivalence scales. The use of variable equivalence scales causes distinctive increases in income inequality compared with income-independent, constant equivalence scales. The narrowing of income limits between the upper and lower income regions also leads to an increase in income inequality.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1108/S1049-2585(2012)0000020015

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