Accounting for the decline in Spanish household expenditures inequality during the 1980s

Río, Coral del; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier

Accounting for the decline in Spanish household expenditures inequality during the 1980s

Autor(es): Río, Coral del; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier

Editorial: Springer

Fecha de edición: 2001-09

Cita: Spanish Economic Review, 2001, v. 3, n. 3, pp. 151-175

ISSN: 1435-5469

DOI: 10.1007/PL00011440

Agradecimientos: This work has been completed under the research programme of the Cátedra Gumersindo de Azcárate, financed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. It has been presented in the 1996 meeting of the network “Distribution and Redistribution of Income”, in Bordeaux, financed by European Communities (Contract #ERBCHRXCT940647). Financial help from Project PB96-0118 of the Spanish DGES is also acknowledged

Revisado: PeerReviewed

Versión del editor: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00011440

Palabras clave: Inequality decomposition , Inequality trend , Equivalence scales

Clasificación JEL: D31

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/4759

Derechos: ©Springer

Resumen:

In this paper we apply decomposition methods to analyze some of the factors accounting for the decrease in household expenditures inequality in Spain during the 1980s. We adopt a simple one-parameter model in which equivalence scales depend only on household s [+]