The Class of Absolute Decomposable Inequality Measures

Kristof Bosmans and Frank Cowell ()

STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers from Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

Abstract: We provide a parsimonious axiomatisation of the complete class of absolute nequalityindices. Our approach uses only a weak form of decomposability and does not require a priori that the measures be differentiable.

Keywords: inequality measures; decomposability; translation invariance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H20 H21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-02
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