Jacques Silber Economic Studies in Inequality , Social Exclusion and Well - Being

Inequality of life chances and the measurement of social

Inequality of Life Chances and the Measurement of Social Immobility

This paper suggests applying tools of analysis that had been used previously in the …eld of occupational segregation and horizontal inequity measurement to the study of intergenerational social immobility. The paper introduces the concept of “social immobility curve”and two indices of social immobility are proposed that are extensions of the Theil and Gini indices of inequality. The paper stres...

Decomposition of Income Inequality:

This study attempts to determine the impact that various income sources and different population categories in both urban and rural areas had on the overall level of income inequality in Turkey in 1994. Inequality is significantly higher in urban than in rural areas and this difference is mainly the consequence of differences in the Gini Index in both areas rather than being related to differen...

Economic Growth, Income Inequality and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from China

This paper examines the subjective consequence of rising income inequality amidst the rapid economic growth in China. Based on the data from a national representative survey conducted in 2005, we employ multi-level models to show that, while personal income improves life satisfaction, the effect decreases with the level of local economic development; moreover, the rate of local economic growth ...

Inequality and bi-polarization in socioeconomic status and health: Ordinal approaches

Traditional indices of bi-dimensional inequality and polarization were developed for cardinal variables and cannot be used to quantify dispersion in ordinal measures of socioeconomic status and health. This paper develops two approaches to the measurement of inequality and bi-polarization using only ordinal information. An empirical illustration is given for 24 European Union countries in 2004-...