The measurement of resilience

Geir Asheim, Walter Bossert, Conchita D’Ambrosio () and Claus Vogele ()
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Conchita D’Ambrosio: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Claus Vogele: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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No 486, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: We provide an axiomatic approach to the measurement of individual resilience. Resilience has been an increasingly important topic in many social sciences but, as of now, there does not seem to be much literature on its theoretical foundations. This paper is intended to fill that gap. After an introduction to the notion of resilience and its possible determinants, we introduce a set of intuitively appealing properties that a resilience measure is required to possess. Our result is a characterization of the specific resilience ordering that satisfies these axioms.

Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2019-01
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