On a Class of Additively Decomposable Inequality Measures

Anthony Shorrocks

Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: This paper considers a wide class of inequality indices and identifies those which are additively decomposable. The sub-class of mean independent, additively decomposable measures turns out to be a single parameter family which includes the squared coefficient of variation and the two Theil's entropy formulas.

Pages: 23
Date: 1977
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