Taking prices seriously in the measurement of inequality
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Pendakur, K
署名单位：
Simon Fraser University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0047-2727
DOI：
10.1016/S0047-2727(00)00167-5
发表日期：
2002
页码：
47-69
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摘要：
In the measurement of inequality, adjustments for differences across households in their demographic composition and in the price regimes they face are usually very simple. Often, nominal expenditure (or income) is adjusted with an expenditure-independent price deflator and a price-independent equivalence scale. I show that using more flexible expenditure-dependent price deflators and price-dependent equivalence scales affects the level of, and trend in, measured family expenditure inequality in Canada over 1969-1997. For example, standard methods show a significant decrease in inequality between 1969 and 1978, but more flexible methods show a significant increase in inequality over this period. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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