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Constructing Long and Dense Time-Series of Inequality Using the Theil Index

Conceição, Pedro; Galbraith, James K. - 1999

proposes the application of the between-group component of the Theil index to data on wages, earnings and employment by … empirical application to the case of Brazil, an important developing country for which economy-wide Gini coefficients are scarce …

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Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design

Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2000

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Aggregable Health Inequality Indices

Mussard, Stéphane - 2016

An aggregable family of multidimensional concentration indices is characterized, in order to be consistent with a property of exogenous risk factors, i.e. health risks for which agents are not responsible for. The family of concentration indices (or achievement indices by duality) lies in the...

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Distributional justice and efficiency : integrating inequality within and between dimensions in additive poverty indices

Rippin, Nicole - 2012

According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional …

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Closing the gap between absolute and relative measures of localization, concentration or specialization

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2010

discrepancy between absolute and relative measures. It shows that the difference between an absolute and a relative Theil index of … ; Theil index …

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A unified structural equation modelling approach for the decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health

Kessels, Roselinde; Erreygers, Guido - 2015

We present a unified structural equation modelling framework for the regression-based decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural equation modelling framework forms the basis for a...

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Disproportionality measures of concentration, specialization, and polarization

Bickenbach, Frank (contributor); Bode, Eckhardt (contributor) - 2006

The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the projection function, the...

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Estimating welfare indices : household weights and sample design

Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2000

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...

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An alternative measure of economic inequality under the Lorenz curve framework in analogue to the index of refraction of geometrical optics

Majumder, Amlan - 2015

Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has … of wealth or income in different strata. In line with this analogy, first I compute refractive index for each stratum …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality …

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A new index combining the absolute and relative aspects of income poverty : theory and application

Decerf, Benoit - 2015

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