Equivalence scale and income poverty: Two approaches to estimate country-specific scale for the Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61384399:31140/21:00057158

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11205-021-02636-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11205-021-02636-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02636-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11205-021-02636-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Equivalence scale and income poverty: Two approaches to estimate country-specific scale for the Czech Republic

Original language description

The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the equivalence scale used to transform household income to an equivalent for individuals. This study applies two well-established approaches to estimate the equivalence scale: an ‘objective’ one, based on consumption expenditures available in the national Household Budget Survey, and a ‘subjective’ one, based on the Minimum Income Question available in EU–Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data. The aim is to contrast the two estimated equivalence scales in the Czech Republic in the 2006–2016 period with the OECD-modified scale applied uniformly for decades across the EU countries. Our findings suggest that the adult weight in the equivalence scale is decreasing over time, while the child weight is relatively stable under both approaches. The estimated weights are lower than the officially applied ones, with the exception of the expenditure based adult weight, which is very close to the OECD-modified weight. Applying the estimated scales affects the income poverty rate and leads to different rates than the official ones: while the trends of the rates are similar when the two estimated scales are used, the official income poverty rate trend deviates from those two.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-07036S" target="_blank" >GA18-07036S: Methodology and reality of poverty: Czech Republic in the European context</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social Indicators Research

ISSN

0303-8300

e-ISSN

1573-0921

Volume of the periodical

156

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

21-45

UT code for WoS article

000621717500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85101751354