Ceriani, Lidia; Gigliarano, Chiara - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The paper provides the axiomatic characterization of a new relative deprivation index. The concept of relative … relative position with respect to their own past. While in the traditional relative deprivation framework the reference group … deprivation is here extended towards the inter-temporal framework. In fact, if we agree that deprivation is a relative concept, we …