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The Hybrid Multidimensional Index of Inequality [PDF]
In this paper, we propose a new multidimensional inequality index that satisfies a fundamental set of desired properties. We discuss the case where the social evaluation function of welfare depends simultaneously on unidimensional and multidimensional ...
Abdelkrim Araar
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Inequality Adjustment Criteria for the Human Development Index [PDF]
Our goal is to analyse the inequality aspects of Human Development Index and to propose a new aggregation function that can adjust it by considering inequality penalisation.
Enrico Casadio Tarabusi, Giulio Guarini
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Measuring and explaining economic inequality: An extension of the Gini coefficient. [PDF]
This paper proposes a new class of inequality indices based on the Gini’s coefficient. The properties of the indices are studied and in particular they are found to be regular, relative and satisfy the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle.
Chameni Nembua, Célestin
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New approach to measuring income inequality
HeliyonWe show that the conventional income inequality indexes assess income inequality incorrectly because of three problems. The unequally distributed (UD) income-based approach solves the problems, decomposes income inequality into two kinds of departure ...
Youngsoon Kim, Joongyang Park, Ae-Jin Ju
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An elementary characterization of the Gini index [PDF]
The Gini coefficient or index is perhaps one of the most used indicators of social and economic conditions. In this paper we characterize the Gini index as the unique function that satisfies the properties of scale invariance, symmetry, proportionality ...
Sanchez-Sanchez, Francisco +2 more
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Global Maternal Mortality Attributed to Maternal Hemorrhage and Its Socioeconomic Disparities
WomenMaternal hemorrhage (MH) remains a leading preventable cause of maternal health, yet global disparities on its burden remain poorly quantified. Using the Global Burden of Disease 2021 data, we analyzed global, regional, and national trends in age ...
Jie Lin +5 more
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Inequality, Happiness and Relative Concerns: What Actually is their Relationship? [PDF]
This paper briefly and informally surveys different theoretical models of relative concerns and their relation to inequality. Models of inequity aversion in common use in experimental economics imply a negative relation between inequality and happiness ...
Ed Hopkins
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2018 The objective of this research was to evaluate trends in socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of functional dentition among community-dwelling older adults in Brazil.
Fabiola Bof de Andrade +1 more
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Income mobility, permutations, and rerankings. [PDF]
Chakravarty, Dutta and Weymark (1985) present axioms for an ethical index of relative income mobility in a two period world. This paper presents a decomposition of this index into two terms: (i) an index of structural mobility which captures differences ...
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
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Trends in the relative index of inequality for the ten largest contributors to YLL (2001–2015).
, 2018 Trends in the relative index of inequality for the ten largest contributors to YLL (2001–2015).
Colin M. Fischbacher (497975) +9 more
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