Browsing Eksterne publiseringer / International and Nordic Publications by Subject "Measures of inequality"
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Axiomatic characterization of the Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve orderings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001)This paper is concerned with distributions of income and the ordering of related Lorenz curves. By introducing appropriate preference relations on the set of Lorenz curves, two alternative axiomatic characterizations of ... -
Decomposition of rank-dependent measures of inequality by subgroups
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)Summary - The purpose of additive subgroup decomposition is to study the relationship between overall inequality and inequality within and between population subgroups defined by variables like gender, age, education and ... -
Gini’s nuclear family
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)The purpose of this paper is to justify the use of the Gini coefficient and two close relatives for summarizing the basic information of inequality in distributions of income. To this end we employ a specific transformation ... -
Robust inequality comparisons
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree ...