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We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, where relative income has shown a significant and negative impact on subjective well-being, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income...
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This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
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This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct capability measurement literature can be adapted for...
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This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the...
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This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566591
We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare of a population is determined both by the...
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(WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and accessible sources for researchers seeking cross-national data with global …
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(WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database … multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and accessible sources for researchers seeking cross-national data with global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421184
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …
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This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where …, inequality and mobility. To this end, we employ an axiomatic approach to justify the introduction of a generalized family of rank …-dependent measures of inequality, where the distributional weights, as opposed to the Mehran-Yaari family, depend on income shares as …
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