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The Class of Absolute Decomposable Inequality Measures [PDF]

We provide a parsimonious axiomatisation of the complete class of absolute nequalityindices. Our approach uses only a weak form of decomposability and does not require a priori that the measures be differentiable.inequality measures, decomposability ...
Frank A Cowell, Kristof Bosmans
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Inequality Measurement for Bounded Variables

Health Economics
ABSTRACTMany health indicators are bounded, that is, their values lie between a lower and an upper bound. Inequality measurement with bounded variables faces two normative challenges well‐known in the health inequality literature. One is that inequality rankings may or may not be consistent across admissible attainment and shortfall representations of ...
Permanyer, Inaki, Seth, Suman, Yalonetzky, Gaston   +2 more
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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
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Growth, Income Distribution, and Well-Being: Comparisons across Space and Time [PDF]

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being.
Carola Grün, Stephan Klasen
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

The Gini and Mean Log Deviation Indices of Multivariate Inequality of Opportunity

Econometrics
The most common approach to measuring inequality of opportunity in income is to apply the Gini inequality index or the Mean Log Deviation (MLD) index to a smoothed distribution (i.e., a distribution of type mean incomes). We show how this approach can be
Marek Kapera, Martyna Kobus
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On analysing the world distribution of income [PDF]

This paper argues that consideration of world inequality should cause us to re-examine the key concepts underlying the welfare approach to the measurement of income inequality and the inter-relation between the measurement of inequality and the ...
Andrea Brandolini, Anthony B. Atkinson
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Definitions of community‐level approaches to address substance‐related harms and lessons learned: A systematic overview of reviews

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Community action focused on sociocultural and environmental influences to prevent alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and related harms is a global priority. Despite this recognition, understanding of effective community‐level approaches is limited.
Peter Gates, Andrea Zocco, Sara Farnbach
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Theil, Inequality Indices and Decomposition [PDF]

Theil’s approach to the measurement of inequality is set in the context of subsequent developments over recent decades. It is shown that Theil’s initial insight leads naturally to a very general class of decomposable inequality measures.
Frank Cowell
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