Acta Oeconomica
Volume/Issue:
Volume 67: Issue 4
Subjective equivalence scales using EU-SILC panel data for Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary
Authors:
Leszek Morawski Professor at Vistula University and Institute of Economics

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Małgorzata Kalbarczyk-Stęclik University of Warsaw

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Rafał Miśta Robert B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw

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Pages:
585–604
Online Publication Date:
Dec 2017
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2017
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/032.2017.67.4.5
Keywords:
subjective equivalence scales; minimum income; EU-SILC; panel data; Poland; Czech Republic; Hungary; D63; I32; P46
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Equivalence scales are commonly employed in income analysis to compare the wealth of households of various compositions (e.g., 0-child, 1-child). The choice of weights for this type of analysis is not self-evident. In this paper, subjective equivalence scales for households in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary are estimated. We use longitudinal EU-SILC data for 2005–2012 following the approach of Goedhart et al. (1977) as employed by Bishop et al. (2014). The use of longitudinal data shows that previous results on the subjective minimum income that were based on the OLS estimates for cross-section data overestimated the impact from current income and underestimated the role of economies of scale. Subjective equivalence scales imply a decreasing marginal cost of children in the three countries, which makes them distinct from the OECD scale. The marginal cost of a first child is similar to the values assumed in the OECD scale, but the cost of a second child is much lower.

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Acta Oeconomica Periodical of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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  • Péter Halmai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and National University of Public Service, Hungary
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  • Michael Landesmann, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), Austria
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