We analyze polarization in India roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption expenditure data. We show … that both bipolarization and multidimensional polarization (on several dimensions: caste, rural-urban, state, region) have … disparities. Comparing polarization and inequality, we find similarities, but also some differences. Our results therefore …

ordinal data as polarization. Typically a criterion used to compare distributions is the polarization relation as proposed by … Allison and Foster (AF) (2004). We characterize classes of polarization measures equivalent to the AF relation analogously to …

heterogeneity or fractionalization index and the discrete polarization index. However, still no broad consensus is reached on which … groups. Following the Esteban and Ray [On the measurement of polarization, Econometrica, 62(4), 1994] approach to social …-linear way three different aspects of ethnic diversity, namely the fractionalization, the polarization and the ethnic dominance …

In this paper, taking as starting point the link between polarization and dispersion, we reformulate the measure of … polarization of Zhang and Kanbur (2001) using the decomposition of the variance instead of the decomposition of the Theil index … provides an alternative way to analyze polarization by household characteristics and at the same time allows us to compare sub …

In this paper, it will be shown that polarization not only depends on identification and alienation. There exist … compute it. Consistent with this idea and with the basic principles of polarization of Esteban and Ray (1994), we define a … measure of polarization as the product of three factors: the alienation-identification, the share of power of the groups and …

multiresolution analysis, to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade. This methodology allows us …, in contrast to other polarization measures, to detect sub-populations empirically as incomes concentrated around an … optimal number of micropoles. Based on this procedure a polarization measure is developed, consisting of three components: an …

This study examines empirically the impact of income polarization on economic growth in an unbalanced panel of more … than 70 countries during the 1960–2005 period. We calculate various polarization indices using existing micro … Database. The results garnered for our preferred sample of countries suggest that income polarization has a negative impact on …

An abbreviated or reduced-form monotonic polarization index is an increasing function of the between-group term and a … represents the „identification? component of polarization and the within-group term can be regarded as an inverse indicator of … the „alienation? component of polarization. An ordering for ranking alternative distributions of income using such …

This paper attempts to combine the analysis of wage (income) polarization with that of wage (income) mobility. Using … the polarization index PG recently proposed by Deutsch et al. (2007) it shows that, when taking the identity of the … individuals into account (working with panel data), a distinction can be made between a change over time in polarization that is …