A bottom poor sensitive Gini coefficient and maximum entropy estimation of income distributions

Hang Keun Ryu

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 2, 370-374

Abstract: A bottom poor sensitive Gini coefficient (pgini) is defined by replacing income observations with their reciprocal values in the Gini coefficient. The underlying true income share function can be derived approximately using the maximum entropy method given the pgini coefficient.

Keywords: Gini coefficient; Bonferroni index; Wolfson polarization index; Maximum entropy method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.11.018

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