Non-cash benefits and the distribution of economic welfare

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Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the inclusion of non-cash benefits in broader measures of resources have failed to take adequate account of the pattern of needs associated with the greater use of health and education services. Our results, for Ireland in the year 2000, show that it is possible to derive more appropriate measures of total resources than have been derived using standard methods. The results indicate that the greatest impact comes from the inclusion of imputed rent for owner occupation as part of the resource measure. When this is done, the rate of 'resource poverty' for older people is substantially reduced, in line with results which use indicators of standard of living as well as cash incomes ('consistent poverty').

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ESRI Working Paper ; No. 245

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
• Thema: Sozialstaat ; Einkommen ; Sozialtransfer ; Gesundheitswesen ; Bildungswesen ; Wohlfahrtseffekt ; Verteilungswirkung ; Irland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Callan, Tim ; Keane, Claire
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)
• (wo): Dublin
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50141
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ