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dc.contributor.authorCuhadaroglu, Tugce
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-21T10:30:27Z
dc.date.available2022-10-21T10:30:27Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-01
dc.identifier277707091
dc.identifierce0206f8-e9f2-4312-b967-7e678f1c886c
dc.identifier85140118046
dc.identifier000870086200001
dc.identifier.citationCuhadaroglu , T 2023 , ' Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups ' , The Journal of Economic Inequality , vol. 21 , pp. 219-231 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-022-09547-5en
dc.identifier.issn1569-1721
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26229
dc.descriptionFunding: Financial support by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through grant ECO2008-04756 and FEDER (Grupo Consolidado-C) is gratefully acknowledged.en
dc.description.abstractWe explore the inequality measurement of a discrete ordinal variable between social groups. We provide an axiomatic characterization for the Net Difference Index (Lieberson: Sociol. Methodol. 7 , 276–291 1976), that makes use of rank-domination to evaluate the discrepancy between the distributions of two social groups over ordered categories. Adapting well-known principles of cardinal inequality measurement to the between-group ordinal inequality setting, we show that the Net Difference Index mimics the Gini Index in terms of its relationship to the Lorenz curve, in our setting.
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dc.format.extent1303544
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofThe Journal of Economic Inequalityen
dc.subjectNet difference indexen
dc.subjectBetween-group inequalityen
dc.subjectOrdinal inequalityen
dc.subjectInequality measurementen
dc.subjectHB Economic Theoryen
dc.subjectT-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 10 - Reduced Inequalitiesen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccHBen
dc.titleEvaluating ordinal inequalities between groupsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Economics and Financeen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-022-09547-5
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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