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Towards a Multidimensional Poverty Index for Germany
Suppa, Nicolai - 2015
This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … index prove helpful in better tracking and understanding developments. Moreover, I find poor individuals to be adversely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025740
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Towards a Multidimensional Poverty Index for Germany
Suppa, Nicolai - 2015
This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … index prove helpful in better tracking and understanding developments. Moreover, I find poor individuals to be adversely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027507
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Fuzzy Poverty Measurement : Multidimensional and Unidimensional Indicators
Costa, Michele - 2021
This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units identified by traditional head count ratio, fuzzy unidimensional and fuzzy multidimensional indices are compared by means of a rank correlation analysis. The robustness of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242410
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Fuzzy poverty measurement : multidimensional and unidimensional indicators
Costa, Michele - 2020
This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units identified by traditional head count ratio, fuzzy unidimensional and fuzzy multidimensional indices are compared by means of a rank correlation analysis. The robustness of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392485
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Income Polarization and Crime : A Generalized Index and Evidence from Panel Data
Lee, Yoonseok; Shin, Donggyun - 2011
the proposed bipolarization index is derived and an easy-to-implement jackknife variance estimation algorithm is developed … model, bipolarization significantly raises the crime rate, whereas the Gini index does not. It is also found that the … proposed generalized bipolarization index has more explanatory power when more weight is placed on the feeling of alienation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182084
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Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World : Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - 2013
This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155397
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Mind the Gap : Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy
Ryan, CJ - 2020
Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822511
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Global Medicine : Is it Ethical or Morally Justifiable for Doctors and Other Healthcare Workers to Go on Strike?
Chima, Sylvester - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058225
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Race, Poverty, and Deprivation in South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274417
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Race, poverty, and deprivation in South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366282