Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36015 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4787
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using objective health measures.
Subjects: 
Health inequality
concentration index
income measurement
SOEP
JEL: 
D31
I10
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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