New Unit-Consistent Intermediate Inequality Indices

Coral del Rio Otero and Olga Alonso-Villar

No 63, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: This paper introduces a class of intermediate inequality indices, I(?, ?), that is at the same time ray-invariant and unit-consistent. These measures permit us to keep some of the good properties of Krtscha’s (1994) index while keeping the same “centrist” attitude whatever the income increase is. In doing so, we approach the intermediate inequality concept suggested by Del Río and Ruiz-Castillo (2000) and generalize it in order to extend the range of income distributions which are comparable according to the ray-invariance criterion..

Keywords: Income distribution; Intermediate inequality indices; Unit-consistency; Ray-invariance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2007
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