The measurement of individual well-being and group inequalities : essays in memory of Z. M. Berrebi / / edited by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807344703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 9702033912; 1-136-88228-6; 0-415-86084-9; 0-203-83910-2; 1-136-88229-4
• Descrizione fisica: xxii, 319 p. : ill
• Collana: Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 133
• Altri autori (Persone): BerrebiZ. M (Zizi Moshe); DeutschJoseph <1950->; SilberJacques
• Disciplina: 306.01/5118
• Soggetti: Well-being - Social aspects; Satisfaction; Income distribution - Statistical methods; Group identity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Deprivation, happiness, and well-being -- A survey on income deprivation / Conchita D'Ambrosio -- Happiness, deprivation, and the alter ego / Paolo Verme -- Polarization -- Measuring bi-polarization and polarization: a survey / Zoya Nissanov, Ambra Poggi, and Jacques Silber -- Inequality and polarization : an axiomatic approach / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Bhargav Maharaj -- Rank-dependent measures of bi-polarization and marginal tax reforms / Paul Makdissi and Stéphane Mussard -- Analyzing the impact of income sources on changes in bi-polarization / Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber -- Distributional change and mobility -- Distributional change / Frank Cowell -- Galton's fallacy and the measurement of wage mobility / Michal Weber -- On the decomposition of income and wage inequality ; -- The Gini inequality index decomposition : an evolutionary study / Giovanni Maria Giorgi -- On the Ghapley value and decompositions of the gender gap / Osnat Israeli -- A note on the determinants of wage inequality between and within genders / Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi -- Individual well-being and poverty -- A new model for constructing poverty thresholds / Nanak Kakwani -- Comparing multidimensional poverty with qualitative indicators of well-being / Yélé Maweki Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos -- Empirical modeling of deprivation contagion among social exclusion dimensions / Ambra Poggi and Xavier Ramos.