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THE MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Author(s) -
Chakravarty Satya R.,
D'Ambrosio Conchita
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2006.00195.x
Subject(s) - social exclusion , axiom , axiomatic system , dominance (genetics) , mathematical economics , aggregate (composite) , set (abstract data type) , ranking (information retrieval) , economics , econometrics , mathematics , computer science , economic growth , biochemistry , chemistry , materials science , geometry , composite material , gene , machine learning , programming language
This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of social exclusion. At the individual level, social exclusion is viewed in terms of deprivation of the person concerned with respect to different functionings in the society. At the aggregate level we treat social exclusion as a function of individual exclusions. The class of subgroup decomposable social exclusion measures using a set of independent axioms is identified. We then look at the problem of ranking exclusion profiles by the exclusion dominance principle under certain restrictions. Finally, applications of decomposable and non‐decomposable measures suggested in the paper using European Union and Italian data are also considered.