The Isolation index and variations on relative exposure

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: de la Vega, Casilda Lasso; Volij, Oscar
• 署名单位: University of Basque Country; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2026.106229
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: segregation

摘要

We provide an axiomatic characterization of the segregation order represented by the Isolation index, which is increasingly used by economists to measure segregation and related concepts. We extend this result to a broad family of segregation orders that includes the Atkinson and Entropy orders.