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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Income vs. consumption inequality in South Korea : evaluating stochastic dominance rankings by various household attributes
Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - 2013
-to-date picture of inequality and poverty by subgroup in South Korea which helps targeting particularly vulnerable groups. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211170
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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes
Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - 2013
-to-date picture of inequality and poverty by subgroup in South Korea which helps targeting particularly vulnerable groups. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329075
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Adult Equivalence Scales, Inequality and Poverty in New Zealand
Creedy, John; Sleeman, Catherine - 2004
This paper examines the sensitivity of inequality and poverty measures to the choice of adult equivalence scales and … scales, for New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the OECD are examined. The implications of varying the poverty line are also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115573
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gaston - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649290
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Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia
Ramos Morilla, Xavier (contributor) - 2005
avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095436
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Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain
Labeaga Azcona, J. Maria - 2007
The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms. To that end, we use data from the eight waves of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777095
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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen’s Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2021
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen’s 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from social-psychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212497
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Measuring Chronic Poverty
Foster, James E. - 2014
A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require … the resources of a person into a permanent income standard that is then compared to a poverty line to determine when a …) poverty measure with the same parameter β is applied to the distribution of permanent income standards to measure overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061208
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Prioritarian Poverty Comparisons with Cardinal and Ordinal Attributes
Bosmans, Kristof - 2014
of two individuals, then priority should be given to the worse off among the two. We consider multidimensional poverty … axiom, in combination with a handful of standard properties, characterizes a class of poverty measures. We provide an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063681