A new class of deprivation-based generalized Gini indices

You-qiang Wang () and Kai-yuen Tsui ()
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You-qiang Wang: Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.,Hong Kong, CHINA
Kai-yuen Tsui: Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.,Hong Kong, CHINA

Economic Theory, 2000, vol. 16, issue 2, 363-377

Abstract: This paper attempts to merge two strands of the literature on relative deprivation and generalized Gini indices by designing a new class of generalized Gini indices based on the concept of relative deprivation. In this connection, rank-dependent marginal deprivation functions are introduced. A new class of generalized Gini indices is derived axiomatically. It turns out to be the sum of modified versions of the S-Gini and the I-Gini introduced by Donaldson and Weymark (1980).

Keywords: Generalized Gini indices; Relative deprivation; Marginal deprivation functions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-07-14
Note: Received: December 23, 1998; revised version: November 9, 1999
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