%0 Report
        %A Apps, Patricia
%A Rees, Ray
        %T Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13326
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13326
        %X We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income households and women as second earners. We base the critique both on a theoretical model of the family household and a detailed analysis of Australian income and employment data.
        %K inequality
%K equivalence scales
%K tax/transfer policy
%K families