My group beats your group : evaluating non-income inequalities
Abstract
This paper proposes a new methodology, the Domination Index, to evaluate non-income inequalities between social groups such as inequalities of educational attainment, occupational status, health or subjective well-being. The Domination Index does not require specic cardinalisation assumptions, but only uses the ordinal structure of these non-income variables. We approach from an axiomatic perspective and show that a set of desirable properties for a group inequality measure when the variable of interest is ordinal, characterizes the Domination Index up to a positive scalar transformation. Moreover we make use of the Domination Index to explore the relation between inequality and segregation and show how these two concepts are related theoretically.
Citation
Cuhadaroglu , T 2013 ' My group beats your group : evaluating non-income inequalities ' School of Economics & Finance Discussion Paper , no. 1308 , University of St Andrews .
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0962-4031Type
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