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Inequality and Welfare

In: Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare

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  • Antonio Villar

    (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

Abstract

This chapter provides an integrated way of approaching inequality measurement from a normative viewpoint, by using the notion of social evaluation function, instead of that of social welfare function. A social evaluation function is a mapping that is defined directly on the space of income distributions, without going through the intermediate step of individual utilities. This notion permits extending the standard normative approach to inequality and provides a general framework in which all the inequality indices can be confronted in terms of the properties that imply on this social evaluation function. Besides, we introduce here the notion on multidimensional inequality and welfare, that applies when more than one relevant dimension is involved. We illustrate this venue by means of the Human Development Index.

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  • Antonio Villar, 2017. "Inequality and Welfare," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare, chapter 0, pages 93-112, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-319-45562-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45562-4_6
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    1. José Ignacio García-Pérez & Antonio Villar, 2019. "On the three i’s of employment and the Spanish labour market," Working Papers 19.04, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
    2. Achille Lemmi & Donatella Grassi & Alessandra Masi & Nicoletta Pannuzi & Andrea Regoli, 2019. "Methodological Choices and Data Quality Issues for Official Poverty Measures: Evidences from Italy," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 141(1), pages 299-330, January.
    3. Lucía Gorjón García & Sara de la Rica & Antonio Villar, 2019. "The social cost of unemployment in Spain: who are the losers?," Working Papers 19.08, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
    4. Antonio Villar, 2022. "Welfare poverty and human development," Working Papers 22.04, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
    5. Lucía Gorjón García & Antonio Villar, 2019. "The Minimum Income Scheme as a poverty reduction mechanism:the case of the Basque Country," Studies on the Spanish Economy eee2019-10, FEDEA.
    6. d'Albis, Hippolyte & Badji, Ikpidi, 2022. "Inequality within generation: Evidence from France," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 76(1), pages 69-83.
    7. Javier Ballesteros Muñoz & Jorge Onrubia, 2022. "Régimen de tenencia de la vivienda habitual y desigualdad de la renta de los hogares españoles," Studies on the Spanish Economy eee2022-26, FEDEA.
    8. Lucía Gorjón & Sara de la Rica & Antonio Villar, 2018. "The social cost of unemployment: the Spanish labour market from a social welfare approach," Studies on the Spanish Economy eee2018-22, FEDEA.
    9. José Ignacio García-Pérez & Antonio Villar, 2020. "NON-WORKING WORKERS. The unequal impact of Covid-19 on the Spanish labour market," Studies on the Spanish Economy eee2020-43, FEDEA.
    10. Carmen Herrero & Antonio Villar, 2021. "Opportunity advantage between income distributions," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 19(4), pages 785-799, December.
    11. Iñaki Permanyer & Diederik Boertien, 2019. "A century of change in global education variability and gender differences in education," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(2), pages 1-22, February.
    12. Cárdenas-Retamal, Roberto & Dresdner-Cid, Jorge & Ceballos-Concha, Adams, 2021. "Impact assessment of salmon farming on income distribution in remote coastal areas: The Chilean case," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    13. Lucía Gorjón & Sara Rica & Antonio Villar, 2020. "The Cost of Unemployment from a Social Welfare Approach: The Case of Spain and Its Regions," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 150(3), pages 955-976, August.

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