Re: RE: Swedes less well off than poorest Americans

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Devine, James wrote:

> Doug writes:
> > The Luxembourg Income Study people almost always
> use income after taxes and transfers for comparisons. And they use
> household survey measures, not per capita national accounts measures.<
>
> do you have any kind of estimate about what those folks say about US vs.
> Sweden?

It's been a while since I read the stuff, and longer since they
collected the data, but I do recall one effort trying to apply the
U.S. poverty line to other countries, which found that the Western
European poor were largely better off than our poor.

> Also, if the study uses per capita national national accounts data, that
> reflects the lot of the very rich more than median measures.

True, but the relationship between HHI and per capita measures isn't
straightforward, even if you use the same average (e.g. mean or
median).

Doug