Der Preis der Schwedischen Reichsbank für Wirtschaftswissenschaften im Gedenkenan Alfred Nobel geht im Jahr 2023 an Claudia Goldin, die Henry-Lee-Professorin fürWirtschaftswissenschaften an der Harvard-Universität. Sie ist sowohl Arbeitsökonominals auch Wirtschaftshistorikerin und erst die...

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 defined and, using panel data from the Consortium of...

This paper deals with the evaluation of the relative performance of different groups when the achievements of the members of a group are summarised by the relative distribution of these achievements across various ordered categories. After reviewing a previous attempt by Herrero and Vilar to...