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Inequality (Measurement) [PDF]

, 2008
This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion in the second edition of The New Palgrave.
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Measuring Ancient Inequality [PDF]

, 2007
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Branko Milanovic, Peter H. Lindert   +2 more
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Measuring Attitudes Towards Inequality

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1999
Individuals' attitudes to inequality aversion are measured using survey data, based on the leaky‐bucket experiment, for several groups of students in Australia and Israel. Three forms of social welfare function are estimated. It is found that measures of inequality aversion can be obtained with some precision and that these estimates are substantially ...
Amiel, Yoram, Creedy, John, Hurn, Stan
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Path Independent Inequality Measures

Journal of Economic Theory, 2000
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Foster, James E., Shneyerov, Artyom A.
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Measuring Inequality

2017
The focus of this chapter is on the argument from inductive risk in the context of social science research on disparate impact in employment outcomes. It identifies three types of situations in the testing of scientific theories, not sufficiently emphasized in the inductive risk literature, that raise considerations of inductive risk: choice of ...
Robin Andreasen, Heather Doty
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Gender Inequality Index Appropriateness for Measuring Inequality

Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 2017
Gender inequality means unequal distribution of wealth, power, and benefits among women and men. The gender inequality index (GII) measures the lost human development in three important dimensions: reproductive health, political empowerment, and economic status.
Elham, Amin, Asma, Sabermahani
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Measuring international inequity aversion [PDF]

, 2008
I measure the rate of aversion to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and 2005. Over time, OECD countries have become less concerned about international inequity. Even for a fairly leaky bucket, the consumption rate of inequity aversion is less than the rate of risk aversion ...
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Measuring Inequality

The theories on inequality are imperfect and dynamic, and the measurement of inequality is multidimensional, as Section 2 will explore. This chapter aims to give the reader insight into what scholars have to say about inequality, the measurement of inequality, and the current stand in South Africa.
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Fuzzy measurement of income inequality: a class of fuzzy inequality measures

Social Choice and Welfare, 1995
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MEASURING DISTRIBUTIONAL INEQUITY

Policy Studies Journal, 1981
AbstractBoth policy managers and policy analysts are interested in the distribution of urban public services. It seems clear, however, that minimizing service maldistribution first depends on better measurement. The Index of Inequity is a new statistical procedure designed to measure maldistribution of urban services with respect to any distributional ...
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