Giving Gini direction: an asymmetry metric for economic disadvantage

DOI10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.037zbMath1396.91592OpenAlexW2225728940MaRDI QIDQ1668011

Roger J. Bowden

Publication date: 31 August 2018

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.037

zbMATH Keywords

income distributionGini coefficientpartition entropyentropic shiftsv-metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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Cites Work

• Information, measure shifts and distribution metrics
• The Class of Additively Decomposable Inequality Measures

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