Measuring Inequality Without the Pigou-Dalton Condition

Alain Chateauneuf and Patrick Moyes

No RP2005-02, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Typical welfare and inequality measures are required to be Lorenz consistent which guarantees that inequality decreases and welfare increases as a result of a progressive transfer. We explore the implications for welfare and inequality measurement of substituting the weaker absolute differentials, deprivation and satisfaction quasi-orderings for the Lorenz quasi-ordering.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Income distribution; Poverty measurement; Welfare economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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