Purpose

The authors aim to demonstrate the impact of allowing for unequal intra-household distribution of resources on income poverty and income inequality.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper applies a collective consumption model to study the intra-household distribution of resources in Visegrád countries (V4). It utilises subjective financial satisfaction as a proxy for indirect utility from individual consumption to estimate the indifference scales within couples instead of the traditional equivalence scale. The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2013 and 2018 data are applied.

Findings

This study’s results indicate substantial economies of scale from living in a couple that are generally higher than implied by the commonly applied equivalence scale. The sharing rule estimates suggest that at the mean of distribution factors, women receive a consumption share between 0.4 and 0.6; however, some of the results are close to an equal sharing of 0.5. The female consumption share rises with her contribution to household income. Regarding income poverty and inequality, the authors show that both these measures might be underestimated in the traditional approach to equal sharing of resources.

Originality/value

The authors add to the empirics by estimating indifference scales for Czechia (CZ), Hungary (HU), Poland (PL) and Slovakia (SK), countries that have not been involved in previous research.

中文翻译：

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维谢格拉德国家的家庭内部资源分配和收入贫困和不平等

目的

作者旨在证明允许家庭内部资源分配不平等对收入贫困和收入不平等的影响。

设计/方法/方法

本文应用集体消费模型来研究维谢格拉德国家（V4）的家庭内部资源分配。它利用主观财务满意度作为个人消费间接效用的代理来估计夫妻内部的无差异量表，而不是传统的等价量表。应用欧盟收入和生活条件统计 (EU-SILC) 2013 年和 2018 年数据。

发现

这项研究的结果表明，生活在一对夫妇中所产生的巨大规模经济通常高于普遍应用的等价量表所暗示的。共享规则估计表明，在平均分配因素下，女性获得的消费份额在 0.4 到 0.6 之间；然而，有些结果接近于 0.5 的均等份额。女性消费份额随着她对家庭收入的贡献而上升。关于收入贫困和不平等，作者表明，在平等共享资源的传统方法中，这两种衡量标准可能都被低估了。

原创性/价值

作者通过估计捷克 (CZ)、匈牙利 (HU)、波兰 (PL) 和斯洛伐克 (SK) 这些先前未参与研究的国家的无差异量表来增加经验。