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Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain
Labeaga, José M.; Molina, José Alberto; Navarro, María - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
calculate inequality and polarization indices and then we specifically analyze whether the Spanish tax-benefit system helped to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761675
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Well-being inequality and reference groups: an agenda for new research
van Praag, Bernard - 2010
well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277027
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Better Off? Distributional Comparisons for Ordinal Data about Personal Well-Being
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2019
-assessed health status? Has average well-being increased or well-being inequality decreased? How does the distribution of well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180003
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Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2019
distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … inequality rankings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180004
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Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2020
demonstrate, ineqord can be used for dominance checks as well as for estimation of indices of polarization and inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207738
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The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
Grimes, Arthur; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Tranquilli, Florencia - 2020
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than … described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices … inequality, matters for individual SWL outcomes; so too does whether we look upwards or downwards at the (skewed) distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322491
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Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone: A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307359
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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286273
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Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480917
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Multidimensional Affluence: Theory and Applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283567