On the capacity of the Gini index to represent income distributions

DOI10.1007/s40300-020-00164-8zbMath1436.62689OpenAlexW3006962336MaRDI QIDQ1985871

Yang Liu, Joseph L. Gastwirth

Publication date: 7 April 2020

Published in: Metron (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-020-00164-8

zbMATH Keywords

moment problemPareto distributionGini indexLorenz curvegeneralized entropy measuresmeasures of income inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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