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On the measurement of long-term income inequality and income mobility

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where mobility is defined as an equalizer of long-term income. The first step consists of aggregating the income stream of each individual into a measure of permanent income, which...

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Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an exante and an ex-post approach to EOp. Our ex-post approach relies on a permanent income measure defined as...

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On a family of achievement and shortfall inequality indices

Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

This paper identifies a family of absolute consistent inequality indices using a weakly decomposable postulate suggested by Ebert (2010). Since one member employs an Atkinson (1970) type aggregation we refer to it as the Atkinson index of consistent inequality. A second member of this family...

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A study on the RQ index of ethnic polarization

Chakravarty, Satya R.; Maharaj, Bhargav - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

An ethnic polarization index is a summary statistic of ethnic diversity in a population. Montalvo and Reynal-Querol (2005,2008) suggested an index of ethnic polarization, the RQ index, and discussed its properties in detail. In this paper we develop some axiomatic characterizations of the RQ...

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Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation

Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

We examine the measurement of multidimensional poverty and material deprivation following the counting approach. In … inequality aversion in poverty. We apply the proposed measures to European Union member states where the concept of material …

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Measuring polarization by reduced-form indices

Chakravarty, Satya R.; Maharaj, Bhargav - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

An abbreviated or reduced-form monotonic polarization index is an increasing function of the between-group term and a decreasing function of the within-group term of a population subgroup decomposable inequality index. The between-group term represents the „identification? component of...

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Robust inequality comparisons

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations Aaberge (2009) introduced two...

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Poverty and Time

Bossert, Walter; Chakravarty, Satya R.; Conchita … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we … assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual intertemporal poverty … measures reflecting this feature. In addition, we axiomatize an aggregation procedure to obtain intertemporal poverty measures …

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