Theil, Inequality Indices and Decomposition

Frank Cowell ()

No 1, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: Theil’s approach to the measurement of inequality is set in the context of subsequent developments over recent decades. It is shown that Theil’s initial insight leads naturally to a very general class of decomposable inequality measures. It is thus closely related to a number of other commonly used families of inequality measures.

Keywords: Theil, inequality; independence; homotheticity; translatability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2005-10
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