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Incorporating equality considerations into measures of public service output
Discusses how distributional weights may be used for the above and arguments for and against using them

Authors: Richard Jones, Andrew Rowlinson

Economic & Labour Market Review, vol 3, no 3, pp 44-47.
ISSN: 1751-8334

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Abstract

The UK Centre for Measurement of Government Activity (UKCeMGA) was launched in 2005 to improve measures of public service output. This article discusses how distributional weights may be used to incorporate equality considerations into these measures. It also presents the arguments for and against making this type of adjustment.

Published in web format: 17 March 2009 at 9:30 am

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