Measuring trends in U. S. income inequality. Theory and applications

zbMath0911.90081MaRDI QIDQ1389379

Daniel J. Slottje, Hang Keun Ryu

Publication date: 22 June 1998

Published in: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

income distributionmaximum entropyLegendre polynomialsexponential polynomialsLorenz curvecapabilityincome inequality measurementindex space analysisindex space representationsmaximum entropy estimationshare function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Economic growth models (91B62) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-02)

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