Internationally, globalization and increased economic integration has impacted quality of life
and individual well-being. Attempts to evaluate the impact on income dispersion from this …

The paper considers marginal models for categorical data and after reviewing the most
important theoretical results concerning the definition, estimation and testing of such models …

An exact conditional approach is developed to test for certain forms of positive association
between two ordinal variables (eg positive quadrant dependence, total positivity of order 2) …

This paper extends the ordinary quasi‐symmetry (QS) model for square contingency tables
with commensurable classification variables. The proposed generalised QS model is …

The topic of intergenerational mobility measurement has been increasingly popular among
economists in recent years. For interesting surveys, see, for example, Solon (1999) and …

An important issue in both welfare and development economics is the interaction between
institutions and economic outcomes. While welfarists are typically concerned with how these …

The restricted minimum φ-divergence estimator,[Pardo, JA, Pardo, L. and Zografos, K., 2002,
Minimum φ-divergence estimators with constraints in multinomial populations. Journal of …

We investigate the properties of a class of discrete multivariate distributions whose
univariate marginals have ordered categories, all the bivariate marginals, like in the Plackett …

We introduce concepts and measures relating to inequality between identity groups. We
define and discuss the concepts of Representational Inequality, Sequence Inequality and …

The notion of equality of opportunity (EO) has pervaded much of economic and social justice
policy, and research over the last half century. The sense that differences in agent outcomes …