Income stratification and between-group inequality

Paul Allanson

No 275, Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics from Economic Studies, University of Dundee

Abstract: The paper demonstrates that the ratio of the Yitzhaki (1994) to the conventional measure of between-group inequality is in general equal to one minus twice the weighted average probability that a random member of a richer (on average) group is poorer than a random member of a poorer (on average) group, and may therefore be interpreted as an index of stratification in its own right.

Keywords: Gini coefficient; subgroup decomposability; income stratification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2013-09
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