Measurement of Income Multipolar Polarization

Satya Chakravarty

Chapter Chapter 3 in Inequality, Polarization and Conflict, 2015, pp 53-62 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The analysis of income multipolar polarization presented in this chapter regards polarization as concentration of incomes around local means of the distribution, wherever these local means are located on the income scale. Essential to this notion of polarization are identification of individuals within a subgroup and alienation between individuals across subgroups. Axiomatic approaches to this notion of polarization for both discrete- and continuous-type income distributions are considered in details.

Keywords: Alienation; Identification; Axioms; The Esteban–Ray index; The Duclos–Esteban–Ray index; Variants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2166-1_3

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