Proximity-Sensitive Individual Deprivation Measures

Walter Bossert and Conhita D’Ambrosio ()
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Conhita D’Ambrosio: Università di Milano-Bicocca and Econpubblica, Italy Abstract
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No 283, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: We propose and characterize a generalization of the classical linear index of individual deprivation based on income shortfalls. Unlike the original measure, our class allows for increases in the income of a higher-income individual to have a stronger impact on a person’s deprivation the closer they occur the income of the individual whose deprivation is being assessed. The subclass of our measures with this property is axiomatized in our second result.

Keywords: Income distribution; relative deprivation; equity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2012-12
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