A Consistent Multidimensional Generalization of the Pigou-Dalton Transfer Principle: An Analysis

Díez, Henar; Vega, Casilda Lasso de la; Sarachu, Amaia de; Urrutia, Ana

doi:10.2202/1935-1704.1408

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“…This dominance criterion is known as "price majorization", "budget majorization" or "directional majorization". The appropriateness, or the lack, of market prices for attributes such as the health status represents a problem for this 42 See also Das Gupta and Bhandari (1989), Dardanoni (1995), Fleurbaey and Trannoy (2003), Mosler (2004), Fleurbaey (2006), Savaglio (2006aSavaglio ( , 2006b, Diez et al (2007), Nakamura (2012) and Banerjee (2014aBanerjee ( , 2014b.…”

Section: Multidimensional Extensions Of the Pigou-dalton Transfers Pr...mentioning

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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality

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Brandolini

2014

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Section: Multidimensional Extensions Of the Pigou-dalton Transfers Pr...mentioning

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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality

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Brandolini

2014

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“…See also DasGupta and Bhandari (1989),Dardanoni (1995),Fleurbaey and Trannoy (2003),Mosler (2004),Fleurbaey (2006),Savaglio (2006aSavaglio ( , 2006b,Diez et al (2007),Nakamura (2012) andBanerjee (2014aBanerjee ( , 2014b.…”

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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality

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Brandolini

2015

Handbook of Income Distribution

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This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it outlines three aspects preliminary to any multidimensional study: the selection of the relevant dimensions; the indicators used to measure them; and the procedures for their weighting. It then considers the counting approach and the axiomatic treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a selective review of a rapidly growing theoretical literature with the twofold aim of highlighting areas for future research and offering some guidance on how to use multidimensional methods in empirical and policy-oriented applications.

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“…Bourguignon (1999), List (1999)). Nevertheless, Diez et al (2007) show that in general these indices fail to rank any pair of multidimensional distributions when one is derived from another by a transfer of part of one attribute from a richer person to a poorer one. 4 As an illustration consider a society of three individuals each endowed with two attributes.…”

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“…In fact the paper shows the relationships between PDB and other dominance criteria that exist in the literature.5 This issue is shown inDiez et al (2007). They check some of the most important multidimensional inequality measures in order to show whether or not PDB is satisfied.…”

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Characterizing multidimensional inequality measures which fulfil the Pigou–Dalton bundle principle

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In the unidimensional setting, the well known Pigou-Dalton transfer principle is the basic axiom to order distribution in terms of inequality. This axiom has a number of generalizations to the multidimensional approach which have been used to derive inequality measures. However, up to now, none of them has assumed the Pigou-Dalton bundle dominance criterion, introduced by Fleurbaey and Trannoy (2003). This principle captures the basic idea of the original Pigou-Dalton transfer principle, demanding that also in the multidimensional context "a transfer from a richer person to a poorer one decreases inequality". Assuming this criterion the aim of this paper is to characterize multidimensional inequality measures. For doing so, firstly we derive the canonical forms of multidimensional relative aggregative inequality measures which fulfil this property. Then we identify sub-families from a normative approach. The inequality measures we derive share their functional forms with other parameter families already characterized in the literature, the major difference being the restrictions upon the parameters. Nevertheless, we show that it is not necessary to give up any of the usual requirements to assume the Pigou-Dalton bundle criterion. Thus, in empirical applications it makes sense to choose measures that also fulfil this principle.

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A Consistent Multidimensional Generalization of the Pigou-Dalton Transfer Principle: An Analysis

Cited by 8 publications

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Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality

Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality

Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality

Characterizing multidimensional inequality measures which fulfil the Pigou–Dalton bundle principle

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