Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes

Ramses Abul Naga and Pierre Geoffard

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Abstract: We provide, for the class of relative bidimensional inequality indices, a decomposition of inequality into two univariate Atkinson-Kolm-Sen indices and a third statistic which depends on the joint distribution of resources.

Keywords: multidimensional inequality; relative indices; correlation increasing transfers; copulas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2006-02
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Working Paper: Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes (2006)
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