Is There Room for Polarization?

Yitzhaki, Shlomo

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“…In the first contribution addressing the quantification of relative deprivation, Yitzhaki (1979) proposes a measure which is equivalent to the absolute Gini index—the product of mean income in society and the Gini index of inequality. Building upon Runciman's remark that “The magnitude of a relative deprivation is the extent of the difference between the desired situation and that of the person desiring it” (1966, p. 10), Hey and Lambert (1980) provide an alternative motivation for Yitzhaki's result by extending his approach to the utility space and considering interpersonal comparisons explicitly (see also Yitzhaki, 1980, 2010).…”

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Upper Boundedness for the Measurement of Relative Deprivation

Esposito

2010

Review of Income and Wealth

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A new index of relative deprivation is derived axiomatically. Thanks to an asymptotically concave individual contribution function, the new measure provides a sounder quantification to the concept of relative deprivation as conceptualized in the seminal work of Runciman (1966 ) and better reflects the sociological connotations of the phenomenon. Copyright 2010 The Author. Review of Income and Wealth 2010 International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.

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Upper Boundedness for the Measurement of Relative Deprivation

Esposito

2010

Review of Income and Wealth

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“…The second strand, originating from Esteban and Ray [24], focuses on the rise of separated income groups: polarization increases if the population groups are getting more homogeneous inside and more separate one to the other. These pioneering contributions have been followed by many others, such as Wang and Tsui [59], Gradin [38], Chakravarty and Majumder [15], D'Ambrosio [19], Zhang and Kanbur [64], Duclos et al [22], Anderson [4], Esteban et al [25], Massari et al [44], Chakravarty and D'Ambrosio [14], Lasso de la Vega et al [42], Yitzhaki [63], Pittau et al [51], Permanyer [47], Silber et al [55], Lasso de la Vega and Urrutia [41], Chakravarty and Majumder [16].…”

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Bonferroni and De Vergottini are back: New subgroup decompositions and bipolarization measures

Ciommi

Gigliarano

Giorgi

2022

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

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Aim of this paper is to propose new bipolarization indices based on he Bonferroni and De Vergottini indices of inequality. The new bipolarization indices follow the approach of Foster and Wolfson and are based on new subgroup decomposition of Bonferroni and De Vergottini indices of inequality. We also provide the conditions under which the new polarization indices satisfy the Increased Spread and Increased Bipolarity axioms. Finally, a simulation study has been carried out to compare the different sensitivity of the new bipolarization indices to progressive transfers. Also, an empirical application based on EU-SILC data for Italy ober the period 2007-2011 show the appeal of our proposal.

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“…The overlap index, defined by Lasswell (1965)-the concept of "overlap" signifying the opposite of stratification-is an alternative way to compare the distribution of two groups (Yitzhaki 1994). Its use reveals the extent of overlap between the distributions of the groups, beyond the extent of inequality between them (Milanovic and Yitzhaki 2002;Frick et al 2006;Heller and Yitzhaki 2006;Yitzhaki and Schechtman 2009;Yitzhaki 2010).…”

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Is a Municipal Boundary a Good Stratification Variable?

Tur‐Sinai

2019

Soc Indic Res

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Many aspects of interrelations among urban units in a metropolis and their economic effects on the central city have been explored in research so far. Questioned in this context are the extent of dominance that one may attribute to the metropolis for goingson in surrounding towns and the effect of municipal boundaries on these cities' economic developments. The geographic structure of Israel's main metropolitan center is helpful in studying the economic importance of municipal boundaries because it facilitates comparison of developments in areas abutting both sides of the municipal border. The main purpose of the study is to determine the value of a municipal boundary as a stratification variable. To test this, a unique database, including wage and self-employed income and home-sale transactions data, is used, and Gini indices for income and home prices are estimated and deconstructed using the ANOGI method. The following is found: the municipal boundary of the economic-activity center is losing its acuity over time, in terms of both income and income inequality. Contrastingly, the boundary is a good stratification variable for home prices and their inequality index. The inequality index is higher for income than for home prices. Some of the difference in home prices among groups in geographically adjacent areas originates in measured variance in the characteristics of the areas ("explained difference"). However, an "unexplained difference"-possibly stemming from areaspecific characteristics such as the quality of public services, level of taxation, and reputation-also has a considerable effect on the difference in housing prices.

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Is There Room for Polarization?

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

Upper Boundedness for the Measurement of Relative Deprivation

Upper Boundedness for the Measurement of Relative Deprivation

Bonferroni and De Vergottini are back: New subgroup decompositions and bipolarization measures

Is a Municipal Boundary a Good Stratification Variable?

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