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Variable Income Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Approach (Contributions to Economics) - Softcover

Buch 50 von 214: Contributions to Economics

Schröder, Carsten

 
9783790801835: Variable Income Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Approach (Contributions to Economics)
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ISBN 10: 3790801836 ISBN 13: 9783790801835
Verlag: Springer, 2013

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1.1 A Brief Overview An extensive body of empirical and theoretical literature deals with the mea­ surement of social welfare. This body can be decomposed in several different but related topics, all of which have implications for empirical studies in wel­ fare economics. One of these topics are household equivalence scales which help to compare welfare levels across households that differ in composition. An equivalence scale relates the income of any arbitrary household type to the income ofa referencehouseholdsuch that both households are equally well-off. Differences in household needs arise from differences in the households' de­ mographic composition which is, for instance, given by the number, age, and sex of the household members. The increase of household needs is not neces­ sarily proportional to the increase in the number of household members. Such a non-proportionality, for example, results from differences in the needs of adults and children, economies ofscale arising from the division of fixed costs among the household members, welfare gains from household production, and from common consumption ofcommodities bearing a within-household public good component.

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Carsten Schröder ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft, Soziologie und Psychologie der Technischen Universität Dortmund. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Bildungs- und Sozialpolitik, Philosophie und Soziologie der Emotionen, kritische Erziehungs- und Bildungstheorie, Kindheit und Jugend, qualitative Forschungsmethodologie und -methoden.

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The book presents a new survey method for assessing equivalence scales. While previous surveys have frequently been accused of providing data which are substantially biased by respondents' personal characteristics and other subjective biases the new method keeps bias to an absolute minimum. Another key feature is that the derived data adds information as to the impact of two key variables on equivalence scales: income and the number of employed household members. In contrast to the standard ‘independence of base assumption’, the equivalence scales presented are inversely related to the income level of the reference household (a single adult), and increase in the number of employed household members.

 

 

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3790801836
ISBN 13 
9783790801835
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
180
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