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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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We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective measure of individual welfare, we suggest that such a...
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its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …
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spectrum is quantified using the concentration index methodology. A subsequent multivariate decomposition quantifies the …
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-data on Irish and Scottish children, we find that the distribution of GP care in Ireland favours those on lower incomes (i …. Focusing just on children who pay for GP care in Ireland, we find some evidence for a significant 'pro-rich' distribution of GP …
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