Measurement of inequality: An attempt at unification and generalization
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Measurement of inequality: An attempt at unification and generalization
zbMATH Open document ID: 0644.90017
DOI: 10.1007/BF00735758
author: B. George
published in: Social Choice and Welfare
publication date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper reviews and extends the theory of ethical inequality indices. It presents a novel axiom (strict separability of social welfare orderings in rank-ordered subspaces). This axiom allows to provide joint characterizations of the most important inequality measures (Atkinson family, Kolm-Pollak family and Generalized Ginis) and of some new more general classes of indices. The whole derivation is based on weak assumptions. In an ordinal framework only continuity of the underlying ordering is required and no cardinal properties are employed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B82
zbMATH DE Number: 4051303
zbMATH Keywords: ethical inequality indices
zbMATH Keywords: strict separability
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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