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Social welfare, inequality and deprivation
Magdalou, Brice; Moyes, Patrick - 2008
inequality by considering the corresponding relative and absolute ethical inequality indices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335534
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Talents, Preferences and Inequality of Well-Being
Ebert, Udo; Moyes, Patrick - 2010
The distribution of gross income net of taxes and transfers - or equivalenty consumption - is generally considered a reasonable approximation of the distribution of well-being in the society. One typically observes differing trends in the distribution of gross incomes across countries or within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435661
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Measuring segregation when hierarchy matters
Hutchens, Robert M. - 2012
This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed across groups with the same economic status, concern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283970
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Negative income taxes, inequality and poverty
Angyridis, Constantine; Thompson, Brennan S. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612369
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Talents, preferences and inequality of well-being
Ebert, Udo; Moyes, Patrick - 2010
The distribution of gross income net of taxes and transfers - or equivalenty consumption - is generally considered a reasonable approximation of the distribution of well-being in the society. One typically observes differing trends in the distribution of gross incomes across countries or within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442772
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Talents, preferences and income inequality
Ebert, Udo; Moyes, Patrick - In: Social choice and welfare 51 (2018) 1, pp. 13-50
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017483
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A Simple Proof of Lorenz Dominance Criterion
Damjanovic, Tatiana - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 2005
This article provides a simple proof of the Lorenz dominance criterion for two non-decreasing income transformations. The criterion is extended the most general case, with only very mild restrictions on the form of initial income distribution or the properties of the income transformations.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220908
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Measuring Segregation When Hierarchy Matters
Hutchens, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed across groups with the same economic status, concern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555241
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Approximating unanimity orderings: An application to Lorenz dominance
Shorrocks, Anthony; Slottje, Daniel - In: Journal of Economics 77 (2002) 1, pp. 91-117
set of indices. This paper considers various subsets of inequality measures that respect Lorenz dominance, and assesses … results suggest that Lorenz dominance can be predicted with 99% accuracy using just 3 or 4 inequality measures, as long as two …. These results lead us to question the faith placed in procedures based on a finite set of inequality indices, and to suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010863103
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Talents, Preferences and Inequality of Well-Being
Ebert, Udo; Moyes, Patrick - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Carl von Ossietzky … - 2010
The distribution of gross income net of taxes and transfers - or equivalenty consumption - is generally considered a reasonable approximation of the distribution of well-being in the society. One typically observes differing trends in the distribution of gross incomes across countries or within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010663617