An Individual Relative Deprivation Index and Its Curve Considering Income Scope

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• 作者：Guoqiang Ren ; Xiuli Pan
• 关键词：Relative deprivation ; Yitzhaki index ; Kakwani index ; Esposito index ; Income scope
• 刊名：Social Indicators Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：126
• 期：3
• 页码：935-953
• 全文大小：630 KB
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• 作者单位：Guoqiang Ren (1)
  Xiuli Pan (1)
  
  1. School of Management, Tianjin University of Technology, No. 391 at Binshui West Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin, 300384, China
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences
  Sociology
  Quality of Life Research
  Microeconomics
  Public Health
  Human Geography
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0921

文摘

The purpose of this paper is to build a new relative deprivation index with more properties than existing indices such as Yitzhaki index, Kakwani index and Esposito index. Through detailed analysis of the properties of above indices, we find that a new individual index can be derived through introducing income scope into deprivation between two individuals. The proposed index fills up the shortcomings of existing indices. It satisfies more properties including non-negative decrease, concave, weak focus, dimensionless, normalization, translation invariance, scale invariance, additive decomposability and so on. Moreover, the new index conforms to our subject feeling and better reflects the connotations of relative deprivation. The article finally uses CGSS2008 rural data to draw the relative deprivation curves and analyze its sensitivity to max and min income.