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

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  • Coral del Rio

    (Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Vigo, campus Lagoas-Marcosende s/n, 36200 Vigo, Spain Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, 126, 28903 Getafe , Spain)

  • Javier Ruiz-Castillo

    (Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Vigo, campus Lagoas-Marcosende s/n, 36200 Vigo, Spain Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, 126, 28903 Getafe , Spain)

Abstract

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 size. Then we propose an inequality decomposition method which minimizes equivalence scales' potential contamination problems. We find that most of the change in overall inequality is due to a reduction in the within-group term in the partition by household size. The bulk of this reduction is accounted for by changes at the lower tail of the distribution in the partitions by the socioeconomic category and educational level of the household head. These two findings are independent of the equivalence scales parameter.

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  • Coral del Rio & Javier Ruiz-Castillo, 2001. "Accounting for the decline in Spanish household expenditures inequality during the 1980s," Spanish Economic Review, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 3(3), pages 151-175.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:specre:v:3:y:2001:i:3:p:151-175
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    1. Saez, Emmanuel & Alvaredo, Facundo, 2006. "Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective," CEPR Discussion Papers 5836, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

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    Keywords

    Inequality decomposition; inequality trend; equivalence scales;
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    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution

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