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October 3, 2025Journal of Philippine development0 citations

Income Distribution and the Macroeconomy: Some Conceptual and Measurement Issues

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JBJoven Zamoras Balbosa

Key Points

  • Conceptual weaknesses in the measurement of income distribution impact analyses of poverty and the macroeconomy.
  • Common biases in household survey data may lead to erroneous results in distributional analyses, affecting policymaking.
  • The article reviews literature that addresses methodological issues linking income distribution and macroeconomic outcomes.
  • Understanding these conceptual and measurement issues is crucial for students and practitioners using econometric models.

Abstract

Being intended for students interested with the dynamics of interaction of the macroeconomy, income distribution and poverty and who are users of data and econometric models, this article highlights the conceptual weaknesses, measurement errors and biases of national accounts and household survey data that are commonly used in distributional analyses. It selectively reviews the literature on the methodology of linking income distribution to the macroeconomy.

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Joven Zamoras Balbosa (1992) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e03509f0e39f13e7fa42d2https://doi.org/10.62986/pjd1992.19.2a
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