The measurement of individual well-being and group inequalities
Subtitle: essays in memory of Z. M. Berrebi
By: edited by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber
Series: Routledge frontiers of political economy -- 133; Routledge frontiers of political economy -- 133.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780415592086; 9780203839102
Subjects: Statistical methods; Satisfaction; Group identity; Well-being; Income distribution; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Deprivation, happiness, and well-being; title: A survey on income deprivation / Conchita D'Ambrosio; title: Happiness, deprivation, and the alter ego / Paolo Verme; title: Polarization; title: Measuring bi-polarization and polarization: a survey / Zoya Nissanov, Ambra Poggi, and Jacques Silber; title: Inequality and polarization : an axiomatic approach / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Bhargav Maharaj; title: Rank-dependent measures of bi-polarization and marginal tax reforms / Paul Makdissi and Stéphane Mussard; title: Analyzing the impact of income sources on changes in bi-polarization / Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber; title: Distributional change and mobility; title: Distributional change / Frank Cowell; title: Galton's fallacy and the measurement of wage mobility / Michal Weber; title: On the decomposition of income and wage inequality; title: The Gini inequality index decomposition : an evolutionary study / Giovanni Maria Giorgi; title: On the Ghapley value and decompositions of the gender gap / Osnat Israeli; title: A note on the determinants of wage inequality between and within genders / Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi; title: Individual well-being and poverty; title: A new model for constructing poverty thresholds / Nanak Kakwani; title: Comparing multidimensional poverty with qualitative indicators of well-being / Yélé Maweki Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos; title: Empirical modeling of deprivation contagion among social exclusion dimensions / Ambra Poggi and Xavier Ramos.