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Measuring Economic Insecurity
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-03)
We provide a systematic treatment of the notion of economic insecurity, assuming that an individual’s sentiment of insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past. We think of ...
Poverty and Time
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-03)
We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual ...
A Generalized Index of Fractionalization
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2008-01)
The goal of this paper is to contribute to the economic literature on ethnic and cultural diversity by proposing a new index that is informationally richer and more flexible than the commonly used ‘ethno-linguistic ...
Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2009-08)
We examine the measurement of multidimensional poverty and material deprivation following the counting approach. In contrast to earlier contributions, dimensions of well-being are not forced to be equally important but ...