Restricted Lorenz dominance of economic inequality in one and many dimensions

Karl Mosler

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, vol. 2, issue 2, 89-103

Abstract: The paper investigates Lorenz dominance and generalized Lorenz dominance to compare distributions of economic status in one and several attributes. Restrictions of these dominance relations are developed that focus on central parts of the distributions and facilitate their comparison. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2005

Keywords: inequality measurement; lift zonoid order; Lorenz order; majorization; multivariate inequality ordering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/s10888-005-4384-1

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