Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243299 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 962
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
The key challenge in making distributional comparisons with ordinal data is the lack of commensurability of the distances between the ordered categories. This chapter provides a critical review of the most recent theoretical developments addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered multinomial distributions.
Subjects: 
inequality
ordinal variables
partial ordering
poverty
welfare
JEL: 
D31
D63
I31
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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