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Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018
We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...
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Measuring development with inequality : how (should) aggregate indicators of development account for inequality?
Syrovátka, Miroslav; Schlossarek, Martin - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 164 (2019), pp. 1-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183940
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Energy poverty indicators : conceptual issues part I: the ten-percent-rule and double median/mean indicators
Schuessler, Rudolf - 2014
push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment …
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Revising the global multidimensional poverty index : empirical insights and robustness
Alkire, Sabina; Kanagaratnam, Usha; Nogales, Ricardo; … - In: Review of income and wealth 68 (2022), pp. S347-S384
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Global Inequality in Length of Life : 1950–2015
Jordá, Vanesa - 2017
This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942876
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How polarized is the global income distribution?
Roope, Laurence; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2018
The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of … global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During … 'absolute' measures. The results mirror trends in global inequality over the same period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777701
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From the classical Gini index of income inequality to a new Zenga-type relative measure of risk : a modeller’s perspective
Greselin, Francesca; Zitikis, Ričardas - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
The underlying idea behind the construction of indices of economic inequality is based on measuring deviations of … inequality, and various measures of risk. To illustrate the herein proposed approach, we put forward and explore a risk measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822341
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Energy Poverty Indicators : Conceptual Issues - Part I: The Ten-Percent-Rule and Double Median/Mean Indicators
Schuessler, Rudolf - 2014
push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051904
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A New Index to Measure the Income Inequality for the Poor and the Rich
Chan, Raymond Honfu - 2019
inequality measures. The statistical inferential results of the new index are derived and their performance is tested by a … been developed. However, one of the limitations of the existing indices is that they only provide an overall measurement … different distributions.To circumvent the above limitations, this paper proposes a new index which can make comparison between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865301
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Armut und Reichtum an Verwirklichungschancen : Amartya Sens Capability-Konzept als Grundlage der Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung
Volkert, Jürgen (ed.) - 2005 - 1. Auflage
Das Konzept der Verwirklichungschancen (Capabilities) des Ökonomienobelpreisträgers Amartya Sen bildet eine neue Grundlage der deutschen Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung. Dieser Sammelband zum Capability-Ansatz diskutiert konzeptionelle Grundlagen sowie mögliche Anwendungen auf Armuts-...
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