Note The measurement of inequality by components of total expenditure

Henri Theil and Charles Moss
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Empirical Economics, 1999, vol. 24, issue 3, 559-561

Abstract: An informational approach is used for the measurement of the inequality of each component of total consumption expenditure. The approach is applied to data of the International Comparison Project.

Keywords: Inequality; ·; income; elasticity; of; demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-08-16
Note: received: May 1998/final version received: May 1998
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