Income distributions and decomposable divergence measures

DOI10.1016/j.jet.2011.06.017zbMath1229.91118OpenAlexW2044375504MaRDI QIDQ654518

Richard Nock, Brice Magdalou

Publication date: 28 December 2011

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2011.06.017

zbMATH Keywords

generalized entropymobilityresponsibilityinequality measuresBregman divergencesheterogeneous households

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measurement theory in the social and behavioral sciences (91C05) Heterogeneous agent models (91B69) Welfare economics (91B15)

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