The Measurement of Individual Well-Being and Group Inequalities: Essays in Memory of Z. M. Berrebi

ISBN-13: 9780415592086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str.

Joseph Deutsch;Jacques Silber;?Abar

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Presents advances in areas which consider both the individual and the group when measuring inequalities and well-being. This book covers topics such as relative deprivation and happiness, domains where even economists have now recognized the importance of reference groups in the assessment of individuals' well-being.

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Foreword: Peter Lambert Introduction: Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber Part 1: Deprivation, Happiness and Well-Being 1. A Survey on Income Deprivation Conchita D'Ambrosio 2. Happiness, Deprivation and the Alter Ego Paolo Verme Part 2: Polarization 3. Measuring Bi-Polarization and Polarization: A Survey Zoya Nissanov, Ambra Poggi and Jacques Silber 4. Inequality and Polarization: An Axiomatic Approach Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Bhargav Maharaj 5. Rank-Dependent Measures of Bi-polarization and Marginal Tax Reforms Paul Makdissi and Stéphane Mussard 6. Analyzing the Impact of Income Sources on Changes in Bi-Polarization Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber Part 3: Distributional Change and Mobility 7. Distributional Change Frank Cowell 8. Galton's Fallacy and the Measurement of Wage Mobility Michal Weber Part 4: On the Decomposition of Income and Wage Inequality 9. The Gini Inequality Index Decomposition: an Evolutionary Study Giovanni Maria Giorgi 10. On the Shapley Value and Decompositions of the Gender Gap Osnat Israeli 11. A Note on the Determinants of Wage Inequality Between and Within Genders Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi Part 5: Individual Well-Being and Poverty 12. A New Model for Constructing Poverty Thresholds Nanak Kakwani 13. Comparing Multidimensional Poverty With Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being Yélé Maweki Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos 14. Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion Among Social Exclusion Dimensions Ambra Poggi and Xavier Ramos