Proximity-sensitive individual deprivation measures

Walter Bossert and D’Ambrosio, Conchita
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Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 122, issue 2, 125-128

Abstract: We characterize a generalization of the linear index of individual deprivation. Our class allows for an income increase of a higher-income individual to have a stronger impact the closer they occur to the income of the person under consideration.

Keywords: Income distribution; Relative deprivation; Equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Proximity-Sensitive Individual Deprivation Measures (2012)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.009

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