Inequality Measures between Income Distributions with Applications

DOI10.2307/1911936zbMath0449.90020OpenAlexW2036031572MaRDI QIDQ3896792

Camilo Dagum

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1911936

zbMATH Keywords

Gini coefficientincome distributionsempirical applicationinequality measuresdata from the US economydata from the Canadian economyeconomic distance ratiointer-income inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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