Listar por autor "Silber, Jacques"
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Measures of Relative and Absolute Convergence and Pro-poor Growth with an Illustration based on China (2010–2018).
Bárcena-Martín, Elena María
; Silber, Jacques; Zhang, Yuan (Wiley, 2024-03-13)
Income mobility is a key issue for understanding the process of economic growth and distributional change. Some economists have used the concept of “pro-poor growth” to examine, with individual-level panel data, whether ... -
On the decomposition of the extensions of the Gini index that are based on the ‘metallic’ sequences of number theory
Bárcena-Martín, Elena María; Silber, Jacques (Springer, 2024-09-03)
The present paper extends the work of Subramanian (Econ Bull 41(4):2309–2319, 2021), as well as that of Creedy and Subramanian (Exploring a new class of inequality measures and associated value judgements: Gini and ... -
An ordinal approach to the measurement of inequality in asset ownership: methodology and an application to Mexican data.
(2018-02-02)Asset indices based on durable goods ownership and housing characteristics are widely used to proxy wealth when income or expenditure data are not available. In this paper, we propose an ordinal approach to using data on ... -
Ordinal Variables and the Measurement of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Mobility in European countries
(2020-01-22)This article proposes a new approach to the measurement of intergenerational mobility in education. Using a “movement approach” to the measurement of mobility, it borrows the concept of inequality-sensitive and additive ...