The Measurement of Individual Well-Being and Group Inequalities

Essays in Memory of Z. M. Berrebi
Herausgeber: Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although most traditional economic theory puts the individual at the centre of analysis, more recent approaches have acknowledged the importance of a wider sense of identity as a determinant of individual behaviour. Whether it is ethnicity, religion or gender, group membership is a central part of human life. This book presents new advances in areas which consider both the individual and the group when measuring inequalities and well-being. The first part of the book covers topics such as relative deprivation and happiness, domains where even economists have now recognized the importance of reference groups in the assessment of individuals' well-being. The second part is devoted to the concept of polarization, a growing field of inquiry among economists. The third part looks at income and wage intra-generational mobility, while the fourth part reports on recent advances in measuring the significant differences between and within groups. The book concludes with several chapters devoted to poverty and social exclusion, stressing in particular the need for a multidimensional approach to these topics. This collection offers a fresh look at the way individual well-being should be measured, by emphasizing the role of reference groups and the idea of polarization, as well as stressing the impact on well-being of changes over time to the relative position of individuals. This book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the field of development economics, inequality and poverty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780415860840
• ISBN-10: 0415860849
• Artikelnr.: 37330292

Autorenporträt

Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber are Professors of Economics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Peter Lambert Introduction: Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber
Part 1: Deprivation, Happiness and Well-Being 1. A Survey on Income
Deprivation Conchita D'Ambrosio 2. Happiness, Deprivation and the Alter Ego
Paolo Verme Part 2: Polarization 3. Measuring Bi-Polarization and
Polarization: A Survey Zoya Nissanov, Ambra Poggi and Jacques Silber 4.
Inequality and Polarization: An Axiomatic Approach Satya R. Chakravarty,
Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Bhargav Maharaj 5. Rank-Dependent Measures of
Bi-polarization and Marginal Tax Reforms Paul Makdissi and Stéphane Mussard
6. Analyzing the Impact of Income Sources on Changes in Bi-Polarization
Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber Part 3: Distributional Change and
Mobility 7. Distributional Change Frank Cowell 8. Galton's Fallacy and the
Measurement of Wage Mobility Michal Weber Part 4: On the Decomposition of
Income and Wage Inequality 9. The Gini Inequality Index Decomposition: an
Evolutionary Study Giovanni Maria Giorgi 10. On the Shapley Value and
Decompositions of the Gender Gap Osnat Israeli 11. A Note on the
Determinants of Wage Inequality Between and Within Genders Giovanni
Ferro-Luzzi Part 5: Individual Well-Being and Poverty 12. A New Model for
Constructing Poverty Thresholds Nanak Kakwani 13. Comparing
Multidimensional Poverty With Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being Yélé
Maweki Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos 14. Empirical Modeling of Deprivation
Contagion Among Social Exclusion Dimensions Ambra Poggi and Xavier Ramos