Proximity-sensitive individual deprivation measures

Walter Bossert and Conchita D'Ambrosio

Cahiers de recherche from Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques

Abstract: We propose and characterize a generalization of the classical linear index of individual deprivation based on income shortfalls. Unlike the original measure, our class allows for increases in the income of a higher-income individual to have a stronger impact on a person’s deprivation the closer they occur to the income of the individual whose deprivation is being assessed. The subclass of our measures with this property is axiomatized in our second result.

Keywords: Income distribution; Relative deprivation; Equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2012
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Journal Article: Proximity-sensitive individual deprivation measures (2014)
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