Income, Expenditure and the Living Standards of UK Households
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Income, Expenditure and the Living Standards of UK Households
Despite the widespread use of income as a measure of household welfare, there is much to recommend the use of consumption. Indeed, standard economic arguments suggest that consumption expenditure will better reflect expected lifetime resources and many economists have been unequivocal in advocating its use. Slesnick (1993), for example, suggests that ‘From a theoretical perspective it is more a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Fiscal Studies
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0143-5671,1475-5890
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.1995.tb00226.x