Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18123 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 364
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
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 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.
Subjects: 
Social Exclusion
Axioms
Characterization
Dominance
Application
Policy
JEL: 
D63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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