Search Results - subject:"Relative Index of Inequality"

The contributions of diseases to increasing educational mortality differential in Austria

Schwarz, Franz - 2006

This paper examines how much changing educational disparity for specific causes of death contributed to the change in overall educational mortality disparity between 1981/82 and 1991/92 among Austrian adults aged 30-74 years. Besides specific causes of death, the study also examines educational...

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Widening educational inequalities in mortality: An analysis for Austria with international comparisons

Schwarz, Franz - 2006

Recent studies have reported a widening in the relative mortality gap between the socioeconomic classes in several industrialized western countries. The present paper aims to determine whether or not education-related differentials in mortality have increased between 1981/82 and 1991/92 in...

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The contributions of diseases to increasing educational mortality differential in Austria

Schwarz, Franz (contributor) - 2006

women. Keywords Mortality, Socioeconomic Inequalities, Education, Relative Index of Inequality, Austria Author Franz …-based inequality measure—the Relative Index of Inequality (RII)—that offers a more efficient presentation of mortality disparities … Slope Index of Inequality and Relative Index of Inequality. The age-standardized mortality rates in this study were …

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Widening educational inequalities in mortality : an analysis for Austria with international comparisons

Schwarz, Franz (contributor) - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003317385