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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296295
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324347
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Polarization measurement and inference in many dimensions when subgroups cannot be identified
Anderson, Gordon - 2011
The most popular general univariate polarization indices for discrete (Esteban and Ray 1994), and continuous (Duclos, Esteban and Ray 2004) variables are combined and extended to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305851
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Polarization measurement and inference in many dimensions when subgroups can not be identified
Anderson, Gordon - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-11, pp. 1-19
The most popular general univariate polarization indexes for discrete and continuous variables are extended and combined to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and continuous agent characteristics. A formula for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306384
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Interpreting Inequality Measures and Changes in Inequality
Creedy, John - 2014
This paper explores, in the context of the Atkinson inequality measure, attempts to make interpretations of orders of magnitude transparent. One suggestion is that the analogy of sharing a cake among a very small number of people provides a useful intuitive description for people who want some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115687
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Inequality generating processes and measurement of the Matthew effect
Bask, Miia; Bask, Mikael - 2010
The first aim of this paper is to clarify the differences and rela-tionships between cumulative advantage/disadvantage and the Matthew ef-fect. Its second aim, which is also its main contribution, is not only to present a new measure of the Matthew effect, but also to show how to esti-mate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321398
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Empirical approaches to inequality of opportunity: Principles, measures, and evidence
Ramos, Xavi; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2012
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283980
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Models as Measuring Instruments
Rodenburg, Peter - 2004
in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … - provided the models is calibrated - this suffice for measurement. This paper explores this construction of a measuring device … measurement to take place by modelling behaviour according to some assumptions, which operate as constraints. While this Weibull …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325381
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The measurement of social welfare
Tsuneki, Atsushi - 2007
the present suboptimal economy. We discuss pros and cons of our approach for the measurement of welfare compared with … other approaches to applied welfare economics, especially the measurement of deadweight loss. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332307
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A sociological perspective on measuring social norms by means of strategy method experiments
Rauhut, Heiko; Winter, Fabian - 2009
The measurement of social norms plays a pivotal role in many social sciences. While economists predominantly conduct …, on the one hand, often fall short in the measurement of more complex elements, such as the conditionality or the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267089