Reference Groups and Individual Deprivation

Bossert, Walter; D'Ambrosio, Conchita

dc.contributor.author	Bossert, Walter
dc.contributor.author	D'Ambrosio, Conchita
dc.date.accessioned	2006-09-22T19:56:35Z
dc.date.available	2006-09-22T19:56:35Z
dc.date.issued	2004
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1866/525
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.publisher	Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques.	fr
dc.subject	Income distribution
dc.subject	deprivation
dc.subject	equity
dc.subject	[JEL:D63] Microeconomics - Welfare Economics - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement	en
dc.subject	[JEL:D63] Microéconomie - Économie du bien-être - Egalité, justice, inégalité et autres critères normatifs et mesures	fr
dc.title	Reference Groups and Individual Deprivation
dc.type	Article
dc.contributor.affiliation	Université de Montréal. Faculté des arts et des sciences. Département de sciences économiques
dcterms.abstract	We provide an axiomatization of Yitzhaki’s index of individual deprivation. Our result differs from an earlier characterization due to Ebert and Moyes in the way the reference group of an individual is represented in the model. Ebert and Moyes require the index to be defined for all logically possible reference groups, whereas we employ the standard definition of the reference group as the set of all agents in a society. As a consequence of this modification, some of the axioms used by Ebert and Moyes can no longer be applied and we provide alternative formulations.
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oaire.citationIssue	2004-10

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