The Distribution of Welfare: Inequality, Earnings Capacity, and Household Production in a Comparative Perspective

Timothy Smeeding (), Inge O'Connor and Peter Saunders ()

No 122, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Cross-national comparisons of earnings inequality can be misleading when unemployment rates and rate of female labor force participation differ across countries. This is because such comparisons implicitly place zero values on underutilized labor market activity and domestic labor. This paper approaches this problem by using an earnings capacity technique developed by Irwin Garfinkel and Robert Haveman, an extension of Gary Beckers full-income concept.

Pages: 55 pages
Date: 1994-12
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Published in The Distribution of Welfare and Household Production: International Perspectives (Aldi Hagenaars memorial volume), Jenkins, VanPraag and Kapteyn editors (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press) 1998, pp. 75-110

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