Distance-based social index numbers: a unifying approach

Walter Bossert, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Shlomo Weber ()
Additional contact information
Shlomo Weber: New Economic School, Moscow

No 550, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: We present a unified approach to the design of social index numbers. Our starting point is a model that employs an exogenously given partition of the population into subgroups. A general parameterized class of group-dependent measures of deprivation is characterized, based on the differences between the income (or wealth) levels of an individual and those who are better off. We then continue to show that the general structure of our class is capable of accommodating a plethora of indices, including measures of inequality and polarization as well as distance-based measures of phenomena such as diversity and fractionalization.

Keywords: Group-dependent deprivation; inequality; polarization; diversity; fractionalization; social index numbers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2020-07
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2020-550.pdf First version, 2020 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Distance-based social index numbers: A unifying approach (2022)
Working Paper: Distance-based social index numbers: a unifying approach (2020)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:inq:inqwps:ecineq2020-550

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Maria Ana Lugo ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).