Multidimensional inequality with variable population size

Ernesto Savaglio ()

Economic Theory, 2006, vol. 28, issue 1, 85-94

Abstract: We study inequality in a context of more than one variable by extending a celebrated result of Hardy, Littlewood and Pölya (1934) to the case of distributions with variable population sizes, whose individuals differ in many characteristics besides income. A new ordering between rectangular matrices, representing such distributions, is provided and characterized by convexity theory. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2006

Keywords: Inequality; Matrix majorization; Markotope; Support function; Welfare measurement. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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