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Measuring Inequality by Counting Complaints: Theory and Empirics

Devooght, Kurt - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2002

on the concept of 'complaints' or distances between incomes. We examine the Temkin approach by means of the questionnaire … the Weighted Additive Principle and the Average view of complaints. The questionnaire results also shed some light towards …

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The transfer principle holds for definable nonstandard models under countable choice

Herzberg, Frederik - 2016

¡os's theorem for (bounded) D-ultrapowers, D being the ultrafilter introduced by Kanovei and Shelah [Journal of Symbolic Logic, 69(1):159-164, 2004], can be established within Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory plus Countable Choice (ZF+ACw). Thus, the Transfer Principle for both Kanovei and Shelah's...

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Who's afraid of aggregating money metrics?

Bosmans, Kristof; Decancq, Koen; Ooghe, Erwin - In: Theoretical Economics 13 (2018) 2, pp. 467-484

We provide an axiomatic justification to aggregate money metrics. The key axiom requires the approval of richer-to-poorer transfers that preserve the overall efficiency of the distribution. This transfer principle - together with the basic axioms of anonymity, continuity, monotonicity, and a...

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The transfer principle holds for definable nonstandard models under countable choice

Herzberg, Frederik - 2016

Łos's theorem for (bounded) D-ultrapowers, D being the ultrafilter introduced by Kanovei and Shelah [Journal of Symbolic Logic, 69(1):159-164, 2004], can be established within Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory plus Countable Choice (ZF+ACw). Thus, the Transfer Principle for both Kanovei and Shelah's...

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