equivalence scale; welfare; demographic change; Luxembourg Income Study; household size economies; income distribution; family economics;
Abstract :
[en] We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by Household-Size Economies, due to the within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multi-member households. In most 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.
Disciplines :
Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)
Identifiers :
UNILU:UL-ARTICLE-2013-087
Author, co-author :
Koulovatianos, Christos ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA)
Minkovski, Polina; Development Research Institute, NYU
Schroeder, Carsten; Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Language :
English
Title :
Per Capita Income Versus Household-Need Adjusted Income: A Cross-country Comparison
