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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824264
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the “right” indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941754
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus : The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147128
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus : The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197386
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Transfers, Income Increments and Leaky Bucket Comparisons for the Gini Index of Income Inequality
Sattinger, Michael - 2021
The paper uses an alternative expression for the Gini Index to derive the effects of transfers and increments of income on the Gini Index. The results support Gastwirth's conclusions (2017) that the Gini Index is not overly sensitive to middle incomes. The results are used to determine the level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323117
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A unified structural equation modelling approach for the decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health
Kessels, Roselinde; Erreygers, Guido - 2015
-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470402
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
The key challenge in making distributional comparisons with ordinal data is the lack of commensurability of the distances between the ordered categories. This chapter provides a critical review of the most recent theoretical developments addressing this challenge and providing methods for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Chapter 2. Inequality, Income, and Well-Being
Decancq, Koen; Fleurbaey, Marc; Schokkaert, Erik - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 67-140). 2015
Individual well-being depends not only on income but also on other dimensions of life, such as health, the quality of … respected and where in each approach the boundaries of individual responsibility are drawn. We compare the measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025349
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600917
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Health, Income, and Measures of Inequality – Why Inequality May Decline When All Inequality Measures Indicate the Opposite
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2024
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 … income, health or socioeconomic health. This puts restrictions on measures of socioeconomic health inequality, where a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096804