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Variable Income Equivalence Scales

An Empirical Approach

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Carsten Schröder

    1. Department of Economics Institute of Public Finance and Social Policy, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Carsten Schröder
    Pages 1-5

  3. Equivalence-Scale Measurement

    • Carsten Schröder
    Pages 7-38

  4. The Potential Dependence of Equivalence Scales on Income

    • Carsten Schröder
    Pages 39-44

  5. Equivalence Scales, Employment and Household Production

    • Carsten Schröder
    Pages 45-49

  6. A New Consensual Approach

    • Carsten Schröder
    Pages 51-56

  7. Survey I

    • Carsten Schröder
    Pages 57-92

  8. Survey II

    • Carsten Schröder
    Pages 93-130

  9. Conclusion

    • Carsten Schröder
    Pages 131-133

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 135-168
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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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  • Department of Economics Institute of Public Finance and Social Policy, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Carsten Schröder

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