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Working Paper 2012-247 Abstract In this paper, following the literature on well-being, we propose an aggregate measure of employment deprivation

Working Paper 2012-246 Abstract Bennett and Hatzimasoura (2011) derive a new class of poverty measures suitable for ordinal variables. These

Working Paper 2012-244 Abstract The predictions from the traditional North-South HOS approach are at variance with the main characteristics of

Working Paper 2012-243 Abstract This paper provides a unique analysis of the evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in

Working Paper 2012-242 Abstract This paper quantifies the occupational segregation of Hispanics in the largest Hispanic enclaves of the U.S.

Working Paper 2011-238 Abstract This paper examines the link between inequality and individual well-being using household survey data from 27

Working Paper 2011-237 Abstract The paper provides the axiomatic characterization of a new relative deprivation index. The concept of relative

Working Paper 2011-236 Abstract Social evaluation functions used in policy impact analysis can be viewed as real-valued functionals of the

Working Paper 2011-235 Abstract This paper aims at evaluating the effect of the current economic crisis on household income and

Working Paper 2011-234 Abstract Education is a main player in social mobility, however, it remains unclear through which channel the

Working Paper 2011-233 Abstract Authors: Ismael Ahamdanech-Zarco, John A. Bishop , Andrew Grodner, Haiyong Liu . Keywords: poverty, equivalence scales,