Dispersion, Asymmetry and the Gini Index of Inequality

DOI10.2307/2526728zbMath0673.90018OpenAlexW2045385802MaRDI QIDQ3827759

Z. M. Berrebi, Jacques Silber

Publication date: 1987

Published in: International Economic Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2526728

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic meaninequality indexGini indexelasticity of social welfareG-Meanindices of location and skewnessPearson's asymmetry indexrelative mean deviations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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