Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes

Ramses H. Abul Naga and Pierre Yves Geoffard ()

PSE Working Papers from PSE (Ecole normale supérieure)

Abstract: We provide, for the class of relative bidimensional inequality indices, a decomposition of inequality into two univariate Atkinson-Kolm-Sen indices and a third statistic which depends on the joint distribution of resources.

Date: 2005
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Working Paper: Decomposition of Bivariate Inequality Indicesby Attributes (2006)
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