摘要:

This paper focuses on the use of statistical matching in the estimation and analysis of the size distribution of family unit personal income. The paper begins with a brief discussion of data on the size distribution of income in the U.S. and their limitations. Several methods of improving or augmenting those data are described, and earlier examples of statistical matching for that purpose are mentioned. A brief summary of the types of statistical matching methods which have been used is also presented. Then a recent example of statistical matching carried out at the Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, is described, and the effects on the size distribution of adjusting and augmenting the initial data using the statistically matched data from that example are shown. Material relating to the accuracy of that statistical match is presented in the appendix.

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1981.tb00226.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The concern with income distribution has always mainly existed because of a concern with individuals' economic welfare. In recent years, the question has arisen whether the distribution ofannualincome—the distribution most often studied—is the best proxy for the distribution of economic welfare. Other measures, such as lifetime income, have been proposed instead.The paper starts with a discussion of how to define and measure the distribution of lifetime income. By using a simulation model, which partly consists of estimated functions and partly of tax functions taken directly from tax laws, distributions of lifetime income, variously defined, are then constructed. These distributions are compared with each other, and with distributions of annual income. The simulations indicate that the distribution of lifetime income is considerably less unequal than the distribution of annual income. Whether inheritances are included or not seems to be of no importance for the inequality of lifetime income. If, on the other hand, we include the value of leisure time in lifetime income, inequality increases by about 10–15 percent. Distributions of income after tax have Gini coefficients which are approximately 25 percent less than the Ginis for the before‐tax distributions. We thus find that the picture of inequality we get is very much dependent on which income concept

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1981.tb00227.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article presents the results of the first French efforts to assemble information on the assets and liabilities of the different economic agents. The estimates cover the five‐year period 1972–76, with complete balance sheets for the end of 1971, 1972, and 1976. The experimental efforts showed that estimation was feasible. It was possible to bring together the varied, often dispersed, and rarely consistent existing information into an integrated body of aggregates adapted to macroeconomic analysis. The report stresses the importance of articulating the wealth accounts logically with the flow accounts, into a complete, closed, and consistent whole in which the theoretical objectives are well specified. It also points out the limitations of the approach, stemming primarily from the state of the basic statistics relating to wea

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1981.tb00228.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper presents an analysis of the distributive impact of public expenditures and taxes in the United Kingdom. The analysis uses household level microdata from the 1971 Family Expenditure Survey, with tax and expenditure aggregates drawn from the national accounts.The analysis is the first to allocate all taxes and public expenditures for the United Kingdom, and the results are compared to those from the more restricted analyses carried out by the U.K. Central Statistical Office. Results are presented for individual taxes and benefits as well as for overall net benefits and they describe distributional effects with respect to income class, household size, number of earners and housing tenure.A final section of the paper compares the results to those from a similar analysis for the United States which were reported in the previous issue of this review.

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1981.tb00229.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1981.tb00230.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0034-6586    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1981.tb00231.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1981

数据来源: WILEY