A general class of additively decomposable inequality measures

DOI10.1007/s001990050283zbMath1028.91587OpenAlexW2034547707WikidataQ56852506 ScholiaQ56852506MaRDI QIDQ1300683

James E. Foster, Artyom A. Shneyerov

Publication date: 10 May 2000

Published in: Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990050283

zbMATH Keywords

functional equationsaxiomatic characterizationinequality measuresgeneralized entropy measuresadditive decomposabilitypath independent measuresvariance of logarithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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