The measurement of individual well-being and group inequalities : essays in memory of Z.M. Berrebi / / edited by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Deutsch, Joseph, 1950-; Silber, Jacques.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 133
• Physical Description: xxii, 319 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Deprivation, happiness, and well-being -- A survey on income deprivation / Conchita D'Ambrosio -- Happiness, deprivation, and the alter ego / Paolo Verme -- Polarization -- Measuring bi-polarization and polarization: a survey / Zoya Nissanov, Ambra Poggi, and Jacques Silber -- Inequality and polarization : an axiomatic approach / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Bhargav Maharaj -- Rank-dependent measures of bi-polarization and marginal tax reforms / Paul Makdissi and Stephane Mussard -- Analyzing the impact of income sources on changes in bi-polarization / Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber -- Distributional change and mobility -- Distributional change / Frank Cowell -- Galton's fallacy and the measurement of wage mobility / Michal Weber -- On the decomposition of income and wage inequality -- The Gini inequality index decomposition : an evolutionary study / Giovanni Maria Giorgi -- On the Ghapley value and decompositions of the gender gap / Osnat Israeli -- A note on the determinants of wage inequality between and within genders / Giovanni Ferro-Luzzi -- Individual well-being and poverty -- A new model for constructing poverty thresholds / Nanak Kakwani -- Comparing multidimensional poverty with qualitative indicators of well-being / Yele Maweki Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos -- Empirical modeling of deprivation contagion among social exclusion dimensions / Ambra Poggi and Xavier Ramos.