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The measurement of individual well-being and group inequalities : essays in memory of Z.M. Berrebi /

Although most traditional economic theory puts the individual at the centre of analysis, more recent approaches have acknowledged the importance of a wider sense of identity as a determinant of individual behaviour. Whether it is ethnicity, religion or gender, group membership is a central part of h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Deutsch, Joseph, 1950-, Silber, Jacques
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Colección:Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 133.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Deprivation, happiness, and well-being
  • A survey on income deprivation / Conchita D'Ambrosio
  • Happiness, deprivation, and the alter ego / Paolo Verme
  • Polarization
  • Measuring bi-polarization and polarization: a survey / Zoya Nissanov, Ambra Poggi, and Jacques Silber
  • Inequality and polarization : an axiomatic approach / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Bhargav Maharaj
  • Rank-dependent measures of bi-polarization and marginal tax reforms / Paul Makdissi and Stéphane Mussard
  • Analyzing the impact of income sources on changes in bi-polarization / Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber
  • Distributional change and mobility
  • Distributional change / Frank Cowell
  • Galton's fallacy and the measurement of wage mobility / Michal Weber
  • On the decomposition of income and wage inequality
  • The Gini inequality index decomposition : an evolutionary study / Giovanni Maria Giorgi
  • On the Ghapley value and decompositions of the gender gap / Osnat Israeli
  • A note on the determinants of wage inequality between and within genders / Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi
  • Individual well-being and poverty
  • A new model for constructing poverty thresholds / Nanak Kakwani
  • Comparing multidimensional poverty with qualitative indicators of well-being / Yélé Maweki Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos
  • Empirical modeling of deprivation contagion among social exclusion dimensions / Ambra Poggi and Xavier Ramos.