My Group Beats Your Group: Evaluating Non-Income Inequalities

Cuhadaroglu Tugce

No 2013-49, SIRE Discussion Papers from Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)

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 specific 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.

Keywords: Between-Group Inequality; Social Inequality; Segregation; Inequality Measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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