Multidimensional measures of economic insecurity in Spainthe role of aggregation and weighting methods

  1. Olga Cantó 1
  2. Carmelo García Pérez 1
  3. Marina Romaguera de la Cruz 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

  2. 2 Universidad Nebrija
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    Universidad Nebrija

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03tzyrt94

Revista:
Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics

ISSN: 0210-1173

Año de publicación: 2021

Número: 238

Páginas: 29-60

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

La inseguridad económica es una dimensión relevante del bienestar. La limitada disponibilidad de encuestas de expectativas subjetivas hace que los índices de inseguridad multidimensional basados en encuestas de condiciones de vida sean una herramienta valiosa. alternativa. Estudiamos las diferencias en indicadores sintéticos de inseguridad para España utilizando diferentes métodos para dimensiones de agregado y peso. Mostramos que su evolución y distribución es robusta a la agregación procedimiento, aunque los niveles difieren. Todos los procedimientos presentan fortalezas y debilidades pero el conteo El enfoque tiene una interpretación económica directa y puede capturar mejor la inseguridad en las clases medias. Otros métodos de agregación son menos transparentes y dan más relevancia a situaciones extremas.

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Authors acknowledge support from the Comunidad de Madrid (H2019/HUM-5793) and Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (SBPLY/19/ 180501/000132). Olga Cantó and Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz have also received support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-PID2019-104619RB-C41.

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