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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those … multidimensional poverty in Central America are higher among females; inequality, however, is somewhat higher among males. …
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In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …
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Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …
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Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …
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This paper begins with an examination of various ways of measuring unemployment and, borrowing ideas from the poverty … measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index …; the second, to the Sen index's generalization by Shorrocks; the third, to the FGT poverty index; and the fourth, to the …
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