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The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to this debate by stressing the importance of the measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of...
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The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement...
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Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition …
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In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test and correct for reporting heterogeneity in sixteen...
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An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income …
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Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health inequalities. We show that, theoretically, both aims can be reconciled only under very specific conditions concerning the type of growth and the income responsiveness of health. We...
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association in times of growth and recession. We develop a novel decomposition method that focuses on isolating the roles played …
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