Beyond Inequality: A Novel Measure of Skewness and its Properties

Walter Kraemer and Holger Dette
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Walter Krämer

No 5972, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We show that a recent appendix to the Gini-coefficient to make the latter more sensitive to asymmetric income distributions can be viewed as an abstract measure of skewness. We develop some of its properties and apply it to the US-income distribution in 1974 and 2010.

Keywords: inequality; Gini-index; skewness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C46 D31 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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