Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes

Pierre Geoffard and Ramses Abul Naga

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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)
Date: 2006-03
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Published in Economics Letters, 2006, 90 (3), pp.362-367. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2005.08.030⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.08.030

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