Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of social exclusion. At the individual level, social … the aggregate level we treat social exclusion as a function of individual exclusions. The class of subgroup decomposable … social exclusion measures using a set of independent axioms is identified. We then look at the problem of ranking exclusion …