 Inequality and bi-polarization in socioeconomic status and health: Ordinal approachesBénédicte Apouey and Jacques Silber Post-Print from HAL Abstract: Traditional indices of bi-dimensional inequality and polarization were developed for cardinal variables and cannot be used to quantify dispersion in ordinal measures of socioeconomic status and health. This paper develops two approaches to the measurement of inequality and bi-polarization using only ordinal information. An empirical illustration is given for 24 European Union countries in 2004-2006 and 2011. Results suggest that inequalities and bi-polarization in income and health are especially large in Estonia and Portugal, and that inequalities have significantly increased in recent years in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands, whereas bi-polarization significantly decreased in France, Portugal, and the UK Date: 2013-12 Published in Health and Inequality, 21 (1ère), Emerald, chapter 4, 2013, Research on Economic Inequality, 978-1-7819-0553-1 1-7819-0553-3. ⟨10.2139/ssrn.2307835⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00941757 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2307835 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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