Relative Deprivation, Reference Groups and the Assessment of Standard of Living

Relative Deprivation, Reference Groups and the Assessment of Standard of Living

This paper proposes two new indices of relative deprivation, derived from an extension of the concept of the generalized Gini for the measurement of distributional change. Population- and income-weighted relative deprivation indices are then define...

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Main Authors: Silber, Jacques, Verme, Paolo
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
AVERAGE INCOME
AVERAGE INCOMES
BORROWING
CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES
DATA SET
DEFLATORS
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DISTRIBUTION OF INCOMES
DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGE
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMIC RESEARCH
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC STATISTICS
ECONOMIC THEORY
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EMPIRICAL LITERATURE
EXPLANATORY FACTORS
EXPLANATORY POWER
GINI COEFFICIENT
GINI INDEX
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
IMPERFECT INFORMATION
INCOME
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME EFFECT
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME SHARE
INCOME SHARES
INCOMES
INDIVIDUAL INCOMES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY AVERSION
INEQUALITY AVERSION PARAMETER
INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT
LABOR FORCE
LABOR MARKET
LABOUR
LOCAL CURRENCY
MANPOWER
MARKET ECONOMY
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POPULATION SHARE
PUBLIC ECONOMICS
RELATIVE INCOME
RELATIVE POSITION
SOCIOECONOMIC RESEARCH
SOCIOLOGISTS
TRANSITION COUNTRIES
UNEMPLOYMENT
UTILITY MAXIMIZATION
WELL-BEING
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20120103133625
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3216

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3216

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