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Entropy-based segregation indices

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorMora, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Castillo, Javier
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-21T13:33:57Z
dc.date.available2010-06-21T13:33:57Z
dc.date.issued2010-06
dc.description.abstractRecent research has shown that two entropy-based segregation indices possess an appealing mixture of basic and subsidiary but useful properties. It would appear that the only fundamental difference between the mutual information, or M index, and the Entropy, Information or H index, is that the second is a normalized version of the first. This paper introduces another normalized index in that famiy, the H* index that, contrary to what is often asserted in the literature, is the normalized entropy index that captures the notion of segregation as departures from evenness. More importantly, the paper shows that applied researchers may do better using the M index than using either H or H* in two dircunstances: (i) if they are interested in the decomposability of segregation measures for any partition of organizational units into larger clusters and of demographic groups into supergroups, and (ii) if they are interested in the invariance properties of segregation measures to changes in the marginal distributions by demographic groups and by organizational units
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dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.repecwe1012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/8920
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10016/15897
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUC3M Working papers. Economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries10-12
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.otherMultigroup segregation measurement
dc.subject.otherAxiomatic properties
dc.subject.otherEntropy based indicators
dc.subject.otherEconometric models
dc.titleEntropy-based segregation indices
dc.typeworking paper*
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