全球收入不平等和生活成本调整:Geary-Allen世界账户

Norwegian School of Economics Pub Date : 2012-10-15 DOI:10.2139/ssrn.2169891

Ingvild Almås, Erik Ø. Sørensen

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众所周知，衡量实际收入的标准方法与消费者的偏好不一致。我们根据与非同质偏好一致的收入特定价格指数，提供与实际收入偏好一致的估计。我们发现，现有的衡量标准，如Geary、GEKS和GAIA，产生了系统性的偏见:一个国家越穷，这些衡量标准就越高估了它的收入。因此，用同样的方法衡量，国际收入不平等被低估了。

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Global Income Inequality and Cost-of-Living Adjustment: The Geary-Allen World Accounts

Standard ways of measuring real income are known to be inconsistent with consumer preferences. We provide preference-consistent estimates of real income, based on the income-specific price indices that are consistent with nonhomothetic preferences. We find that existing measures, such as Geary, GEKS and GAIA, create systematic biases: the poorer is a country, the more its income is overestimated by these measures. Consequently, international income inequality is underestimated by the same measures.

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