Per Capita Income Versus Household-Need Adjusted Income: A Cross-Country Comparison

Carsten Schröder, Polina Minkovski () and Christos Koulovatianos

No 528, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

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 within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out 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)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2010-01
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Published in Journal of Income Distribution 18, no. 3-4 (September-December 2009)

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