Measuring Income Inequality in Euroland

Miriam Beblo and Thomas Knaus

No 2000-10, IRISS Working Paper Series from IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD

Abstract: In this paper we propose an aggregate measure of income inequality for the founding countries of the European monetary union. Applying the methodology of the Theil index we are able to derive a measure for Euroland as a whole by exploiting information fro

Date: 2000-01
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